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Ben C
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On 2007-03-08, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> nono zeeee spokes break at hub from no hub lube. perhaps yawl been to
> muh website and searched for teflon was hub lube?
No, where's your website? I did suggest once oiling the elbow-end of the
spokes because I thought it might help them bend smoothly around the hub
flange without sticking and becoming unevenly supported. But it's
supposition, and anyway, with an aluminium hub the spoke sinks into the
softer aluminium a certain amount and therefore should end up well
supported anyway.
I've not heard any of the wheel gurus recommend oiling the hub end of
the spokes. A bit of linseed on the threads, and some oil or grease on
the nipples where they sit in the rim is supposed to be best practice.
For the latter I just rely on the fact that not far into the process
anything I touch is getting covered in linseed anyway.
> my theory is, based on the fact that when the wheel is and this is a
> huge assumption at this location, done built i am fried with it so the
> thought of stress relief by slamming the new wheel up and down on a
> wooden tree stump is just NOT my idea of a good way to end the day
> i mount the wheel, on the bicycle wise guy, and go for a ride
> rationalizing this escape from reality by telling myself running the
> wheel in will improve the rather modest stress relieving i do what
> with pinching the spokes together and exerting mild down pressure
> thereafter.
> but even with this sissy approach and my lack of ability to tune the
> wheel to lbs-factory tightness without getting rim sine waves as THE
> finished wheel spec-which is to say my spokes are too loose
> the spokes are in fact definitely coming out of the nipples at an
> angle
> every time i bend a bolt or shaft and want the mechanism to unthread
> from an exotic and unobtainable casting or worse hand filed whqazzit-
> it will NOT come out nada
> this here post's raison de etrah, no??
So you mean your spokes are actually ending up bent at the threaded end?
I suppose that would stop them coming loose.
> nono zeeee spokes break at hub from no hub lube. perhaps yawl been to
> muh website and searched for teflon was hub lube?
No, where's your website? I did suggest once oiling the elbow-end of the
spokes because I thought it might help them bend smoothly around the hub
flange without sticking and becoming unevenly supported. But it's
supposition, and anyway, with an aluminium hub the spoke sinks into the
softer aluminium a certain amount and therefore should end up well
supported anyway.
I've not heard any of the wheel gurus recommend oiling the hub end of
the spokes. A bit of linseed on the threads, and some oil or grease on
the nipples where they sit in the rim is supposed to be best practice.
For the latter I just rely on the fact that not far into the process
anything I touch is getting covered in linseed anyway.
> my theory is, based on the fact that when the wheel is and this is a
> huge assumption at this location, done built i am fried with it so the
> thought of stress relief by slamming the new wheel up and down on a
> wooden tree stump is just NOT my idea of a good way to end the day
> i mount the wheel, on the bicycle wise guy, and go for a ride
> rationalizing this escape from reality by telling myself running the
> wheel in will improve the rather modest stress relieving i do what
> with pinching the spokes together and exerting mild down pressure
> thereafter.
> but even with this sissy approach and my lack of ability to tune the
> wheel to lbs-factory tightness without getting rim sine waves as THE
> finished wheel spec-which is to say my spokes are too loose
> the spokes are in fact definitely coming out of the nipples at an
> angle
> every time i bend a bolt or shaft and want the mechanism to unthread
> from an exotic and unobtainable casting or worse hand filed whqazzit-
> it will NOT come out nada
> this here post's raison de etrah, no??
So you mean your spokes are actually ending up bent at the threaded end?
I suppose that would stop them coming loose.