datakoll? writes:
> sheldon brown and jobst brandt mention this tool as a possible
> necessity for alpine III's. DT Alpines are 35% heavier than the CX:
http://www.universalcycles.com/shopping/product_details.php?id=8806&category=2140
I'm sure I never endorsed the above tool. When truing with spokes of
insufficient torsional stiffness, I have unloaded spokes, and not
using thread lock, I have had no trouble turning the spoke nipples.
THat requires a sturdy truing stand in which the rim can be pulled to
the side of the spoke in question enough to slacken it. This works
quickly and easily. With low spoke count that requiring higher
tension than 32 or 36 spoke wheels, this becomes a regular problem.
> RBT genius suggested a 25 watt soldering iron as the nipple loctite
> solution but my experience with a variety of DT 'spoke freeze'
> applied without cleaning nipples or spoke threads with solvent was
> the nipples turned with 14GA after a distinct cracking sound. I held
> the spokes with vise grips, spoke in a jaw tooth curve. try a soda
> can shim in there maybe epoxy several in by finding a larger
> diamtere wire to form the AL or ? into the jaw toothing.
My experience is that even using vise-grip pliers directly on spokes,
they turn. As I mentioned, I have been after Holland Mechanics and
BMD to use a radial pneumatic piston to unload spokes on their
machines. That was even before low spoke count wheels came along.
The inability of wheel building machines to detect spoke twist or
resist it even using clamps have failed and that is where machine
built wheels got their bad name. Spoke-prep did not solve this.
> asian loctite has for me been more yielding than euro or USA loctite.
> less crack more give
I don't believer there is a USA Loctite or Hysol. They being part of
Henkel, a German company.
http://tinyurl.com/3ym4dy
Jobst Brandt