Tom Rawson posted:
>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.
Peter White mentions this problem at his website: <http://www.peterwhitecycles.com/DTspokes.htm>.
Roy "too early in the a.m." Drinkwater Lititz, "dark" PA