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Hi, I'm nearly done building my first wheel and I think it's working out pretty good but I'm
concerned I may be getting too much tension. I'm building with a Phil 36 spoke hub, Mavic CXP33 rim
and Alpine DT III spokes which are a triple-butted 14-15-13 if I understand them correctly.
My current worry is that I have too much tension on the spokes. I haven't hit the point of taco-ing
when stress relieving but when plucked the tone seems higher than my existing wheels. I have four
bikes in the garage and one is pretty close to it in tone. I have a Wheelsmith tensiometer and when
I measure with it, the scale reads in the 75-80 range. On the calibration chart that came with the
tensiometer, for a single gauge 14 spoke, this would translate to about 93-109 kgf. It is off the
scale for double-butted spokes- a reading of 65 for DB-14 gives a value of 130 kgf.
So, can any thoughts on this? Which column on the calibration chart should I be using for
these spokes?
Thanks! Lyle
concerned I may be getting too much tension. I'm building with a Phil 36 spoke hub, Mavic CXP33 rim
and Alpine DT III spokes which are a triple-butted 14-15-13 if I understand them correctly.
My current worry is that I have too much tension on the spokes. I haven't hit the point of taco-ing
when stress relieving but when plucked the tone seems higher than my existing wheels. I have four
bikes in the garage and one is pretty close to it in tone. I have a Wheelsmith tensiometer and when
I measure with it, the scale reads in the 75-80 range. On the calibration chart that came with the
tensiometer, for a single gauge 14 spoke, this would translate to about 93-109 kgf. It is off the
scale for double-butted spokes- a reading of 65 for DB-14 gives a value of 130 kgf.
So, can any thoughts on this? Which column on the calibration chart should I be using for
these spokes?
Thanks! Lyle