Reuse of spokes--which I do very, very rarely--depends on the previous use
and age of spokes, whether a front or rear wheel, and how many speeds! I w
ould not ever want to reuse spokes that had been on the drive side of a mod
ern 130mm spaced lots o'gears rear wheel--it's an application with too much
tension and I'd be wary of the fatigue from detensioning and retensioning
that would be involved. If it's a customer wheel I won't reuse spokes due
to the need to warranty the work--I'm guaranteeing the work using parts who
se history I don't know. A front wheel for my own use? No problem--one of
my own wheels is in it's third rim, same hub and spokes. Some parts reall
y, truly are one-use parts as much as many would wish otherwise.
David Fe
ldman
Vancouver, WA
yr <rpstcyr@hotmail.com> To: Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikeli st.org> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 4:28:24 PM Subject: RE: [CR]Fwd : Reusing spokes
> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:25:44 -0800> From: tom
_s_dalton@yahoo.com> To:
classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Subject: [CR]Fw
d: Reusing spokes> > > Why i
s this practice frowned upon? > > At least i
n a shop setting, this practice
is frowned upon because it takes more tim
e. It's hard enough to get people
to pay a fair price for wheel builds, a
nd I suspect that the whole "never
reuse spokes" thing was started by sh
ops that had no interest in trying to
pry another ten bucks out of a cus
tomer for the time required to unthread a
ll the spokes. Even if this tim
e is paid for, once it is done there are sti
ll so many problems. If the
spokes are old an fatigued and one breaks in th
e first 1,000 miles it wi
ll be "the shop's fault." If the spokes are the wr
ong length for the new
rim you need to call the customer with disappointing
news. Or, maybe the
y were the wrong length to begin with, but the kid doin
g the service wri
ting is clueless about the whole matter. > > As for doing
this at home,
it's no big problem. Spokes do fatigue with use, so I wouldn'
t bother re
using spokes from a well-used wheel, but if it's a new wheel and
the rim
went to an early grave, go ahead and resuse the spokes. In fact, p
roper
disassembly of a wheel requires letting out the tension evenly, maybe
a h
alf turn at a time, all the way around. Only at that point should you c
u
t away the old spokes, and by then it's not much harder to completely unsc
rew the nipples (particularly if you use an electric drill). Unfortunatl
ey,
many (most?) shop mechanics take the quick route by cutting down full
y ten
sioned wheels. This really puts a lot of stress on the hub flange,
and the
rim too. If either part is to be reused, and presumably one is o
r you'd jus
t toss the whole wheel, you should not cut the fully-tesnione
d spokes. > >
Tom Dalton> Bethlehem, PA USA> > -------------------------
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