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Kenny Lee
Guest
While trueing my rear wheel last week I had one hell of a time trying to get it perfectly round. I
tried for hours trying to get the tension all even and have a near perfect round wheel. What
happened was that the spoke nipples at the "bump-up" part of the rim got rounded off by my
incessant wrenching. The tension on this wheel is ideally high and lateral trueness is only off
about +-0.3mm. Only thing is is the little bump-up you see as you spin the wheel on the trueing
stand. It doesn't affect the overall ride but I feel that if my nipples hadn't rounded off at the
critical area of the wheel I probably would have an even truer wheel. My LBS gave me a handful of
brass nipples yesterday and was wondering how I would get the rounded off nipples off. Since my
spoke wrench won't work can I use a pair of pliers? Or do I need to detension all the other spokes
first to facilitate their removal?
Kenny Lee
tried for hours trying to get the tension all even and have a near perfect round wheel. What
happened was that the spoke nipples at the "bump-up" part of the rim got rounded off by my
incessant wrenching. The tension on this wheel is ideally high and lateral trueness is only off
about +-0.3mm. Only thing is is the little bump-up you see as you spin the wheel on the trueing
stand. It doesn't affect the overall ride but I feel that if my nipples hadn't rounded off at the
critical area of the wheel I probably would have an even truer wheel. My LBS gave me a handful of
brass nipples yesterday and was wondering how I would get the rounded off nipples off. Since my
spoke wrench won't work can I use a pair of pliers? Or do I need to detension all the other spokes
first to facilitate their removal?
Kenny Lee