Mike Yankee writes:
> When MA-2's went out of production I bought half a dozen of 'em for future use; that's probably a
> lifetime supply for 2 bikes, including spares.
> One had an apparent flat spot of 1 or 2 mm near the rim joint, which I noticed during a radial
> truing phase of the build. But it was only on one side of the rim (i.e., left or right). If you
> followed the rim's hook (bead), or the inside boundary of its braking surface, no flatness or
> eccentricity was apparent, nor was the joint uneven.
> I checked a few other MA-2's. Holding them perpendicularly at arm's length and looking at the arc
> of the outer flange in the seam area, using the other flange as a "horizon", I could see a very
> slight variation (on the order of 0.5 mm) in most of them. This suggests to me that some material
> around the seam is ground off in a finishing operation; that would also explain why my particular
> "flat spot" was only on one side.
So quit sending your wreck.bike postings to my e-mail already. What are you trying to accomplish
with that?
Jobst Brandt
[email protected] Palo Alto CA