I see that Sheldon has a paragraph or so about the trailing spokes running up along the inside of the flange. My brain hurts and I don't have the drawing for Shimano disc hubs in front of me but they've got specific instructions for the whether the spoke heads should be in or out. I had compared them to the 2 pairs of non-disc wheels I've built, one pair matched but on the other one set of spokes was the opposite of the Shimano drawing.
Can anyone give a quick explanation that won't hurt my brain any more than it already does on why Shimano specifies this for disc hubs?
Thanks, Greg -- "Destroy your safe and happy lives before it is too late, the battles we fought were long and hard, just not to be consumed by rock n' roll..." - The Mekons
it's only the rear where shimano specify opposites. reason: guess it's because there's a theoretical difference in tensions between the "innies" & "outies", but in practice, with the spokes touching where they cross n' all, you'll never notice any difference between the two.
jb
G.T. said:
I see that Sheldon has a paragraph or so about the trailing spokes running up along the inside of the flange. My brain hurts and I don't have the drawing for Shimano disc hubs in front of me but they've got specific instructions for the whether the spoke heads should be in or out. I had compared them to the 2 pairs of non-disc wheels I've built, one pair matched but on the other one set of spokes was the opposite of the Shimano drawing.
Can anyone give a quick explanation that won't hurt my brain any more than it already does on why Shimano specifies this for disc hubs?
