[CR]Dt spoke elbow length

(Example: Production Builders:Frejus)

From: "Thomas Rawson" <twrawson@worldnet.att.net>
To: <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
Cc: <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: [CR]Dt spoke elbow length
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 21:01:11 -0800

Chuck, Thanks for the timely response on the Olmo/FB hub. I have been admiring the Campagnolo GC hubs recently offered for sale on EBay. Your discussion of the countersunk spoke hole do to thicker aluminum flanges suggests that modern spokes may have too large an elbow lengh for these older hubs???

Adding to your discussion on DT, its true they did recently (about two years ago) increase elbow length. I think the code numbers on boxes have an R prefix or suffix. This lengthening was said, by them, to be done to facilitate professional wheel builders who wanted to feed spokes quickly into modern thickener hub flanges. Unfortunately they went a little too far and the longer elbows were loosening via bending/growing as the elbow became worked into the longer main spoke length. After less than a year they shortened the spoke elbows to halfway between what they were and had become. I believe these can be identified in the box with prefix or suffix of R2. perhaps someone can verfy or clarify my information.

My new bifocals are great.

Tom Rawson
Oakland, CA