My memory is that it was fine copper or brass wire. The reason it wasn't actually finished with solder? I think the factory felt it would be too time consuming and that the owner could solder the wheels themselves if they felt like it.
On the soldering: a wheelset that came into my possession recently was done in Italy in the early 1970s, and the ties were _very_ lightly soldered so as to not get any on the spokes (or to heat the spokes unnecessarily I assume). The ties could actually move freely up and down the spokes an 1/8 of an inch or so, making me believe their only purpose with this wheel builder was to keep a broken spoke from flailing around if it broke. It would also make replacing a spoke a lot easier than if the ties and the spokes were actually soldered together.
Anyone have any other ideas?
Chuck Schmidt South Pasadena, Southern California
jack taylor wrote:
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> Howdy,
>
> Does anyone out there know how Peugeot tied the spokes on the PX-10 wheels?
> They don't appeared to be soldered. Were they?
>
> What sort of wire would be used today. I just got a set of Maillard
> 700/Peugeot Trophy Hubs and might be silly enough to try this.
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> Thanks in advance.
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> Regards,
>
> John Taglia
> Chicago, dark & damp