Having improvised a replacement for a missing end cap and reduced spacing o n a pair of Hi-E wheels for my recently rebuilt Cuevas, I've gotten suffici ent high on Hi-E (get it?) to acquire several more Hi-E wheels/rims/hubs fr om two different list members. So to get it all in one place, I dug out som e Hi-E hubs I bought a couple of years ago.I hold in my hand one of Harlan Meyers' weirder creations. A high-low flange rear hub. Not so weird you say ? But there's more!! The small flange, nondrive side is 18 holes. So what? But wait, the large flange drive side is 24 holes!!! A total of 42 spokes. And just for good measure, the 24 drive side holes are not evenly spaced. I nstead it has series of 3 holes, then a single hole at a greater space, the n another series of 3 holes. What???? Anyone have a clue where one would fi nd a 42 hole rim to build up one of these puppies? And supposing one could actually find a rim, how the heck would you lace it?_______________________ ______________________________ Jerry and gang,
I think you will have to skip 2 on the non-drive side and built it t o a 40 hole rim. The 2 you will have to skip should be 180* apart. A few ye ars ago I had Bullseye Cycles make a Hi-Lo hub for me except I went with 20 /16 for the drive/non-drive side. It was made with flanges originally desti ned for a 40h and a 32 hole hub. This way I could built it to a common 36 h ole rim. The build took me 3 hours to figure out with a lot of playing arou nd to get the "push" and "pull" spokes they way I wanted. Since I didn't sk ip spoke holes I could use DT's Spoke Calculator to figure out the lengths. It was an excellent wheel and it lasted a few years until my (off topic) t itanium spokes snapped in the winter's deep freeze :( You will have to stud y your Pythagorean theorem for your spoke length!
Cheers, Peter Schwar love & wheels is what makes the world go 'round in Montreal, Canada