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« Reply #15 on: December 19, 2007, 02:34:23 PM »

my first set took me about 2 hours..

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« Reply #16 on: December 19, 2007, 06:24:02 PM »

I trued it till it rolled straight from side to side and up and down. Then I took it out and flexed the spokes a bit, then set it back up to see if flexing it untrued it, it didn't, then I took the tension measure thingy, and checked the tension all the way around and it was pretty standard, averaging out to right in the middle that the little sheet I was using told me it should be at for the amount of spokes and the length of spokes.
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« Reply #17 on: December 19, 2007, 07:27:47 PM »

I trued it till it rolled straight from side to side and up and down. Then I took it out and flexed the spokes a bit, then set it back up to see if flexing it untrued it, it didn't, then I took the tension measure thingy, and checked the tension all the way around and it was pretty standard, averaging out to right in the middle that the little sheet I was using told me it should be at for the amount of spokes and the length of spokes.

If flexing it didn't throw off the true then you weren't stressing it correctly.  Initially when you start stressing the wheel you will hear a lot of "pings" and the wheel will be significantly out of whack when you put it back in the stand.  The degree to which you properly stress the wheel and it stays in true will affect how long it stays in true when you ride it.

Warning - you don't want to overstress the wheel - you can bust it up pretty bad if you do.
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« Reply #18 on: December 19, 2007, 08:51:32 PM »

I did it till I heard no more pings. I was using probably a handful of used spokes.
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« Reply #19 on: December 19, 2007, 09:32:26 PM »

Whatever, I've never heard of someone having such an easy time on their first wheel.  Paul must be some kind of savant to do a set in 2 hours . . .

I'm cranky.
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« Reply #20 on: December 20, 2007, 12:00:24 AM »

was a very easy set of wheels to build..

like Kurt Cobain once said, "I don't have to think, I only have to do it, The results are always perfect, But that's old news"
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« Reply #21 on: December 20, 2007, 12:53:17 AM »

Yes, he did once say that...but the Meat Puppets said it first, when they were tripping balls in the desert, on peyote.
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« Reply #22 on: December 20, 2007, 01:08:10 AM »

Yes, he did once say that...but the Meat Puppets said it first, when they were tripping balls in the desert, on peyote.

Morgan is unpredictable and inscrutable.

Also funny.
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« Reply #23 on: December 20, 2007, 01:32:36 AM »

oh me  Grin
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