Hi,
What you describe closely matches my experience with a pair of clincher wheels I built with Rigida (Super Champion) aluminum rims, and butted 1.8/1.5 spokes. Those wheels - especially the rear one - kept getting out of true. I ended up replacing 1.8/1.5 spokes on the rear wheel with thicker 2.0/1.8 ones, and *decreasing* and evening out spoke tension on both wheels. That seemed to help - the wheels have been true for a while now. While you did not say what spokes you used, maybe using thicker gauge spokes and/or not over-tightening them (i.e. decreasing the tension and making sure it is even all around) might help. (But please take what I say with a big grain of salt - I've never built up steel rims.) FWIW, YMMV, etc... :)
Monday, November 10, 2008, 8:48:35 PM, Jerome Moos wrote:
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> I guess I've led a sheltered life, but I think I just rode my first pair
of
> lightweight stainless steel rims this weekend. I posted pics of my ea
> rly Viking/Lambert a couple of weeks ago, including wheels with Lambert h
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> s, but Fiamme tubular rims of dubious originality.
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> This weekend I installed some Lambert wheels with original lightweight st
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> nless rims I bought from another list member. I have of course ridden
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> romed steel rims on Peugeot UO-8's and suchlike, but these are a different
> animal. After truing them rather well on the stand, I found that simply
> installing and pressuring up the tires pulled them significantly out of
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> rue. I also found that breaking one spoke tying to correct this pulled
t
> he rim so far out of true that I had to detension it and retrue and reten
si
> on almost from scratch. After finally getting the wheels true and ridi
ng
> a few miles, I had to retrue again. Most of this applied to the rear
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> eel, although the front also had to be retrued after installing the tire.
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> Are lightweight stainless rims inherently more difficult to keep in true
th
> an alloy rims? Most rims of this type seem to have been made in UK, so
p
> erhaps the British members can offer some insight.
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> Regards,
>
> Jerry Moos
> Big Spring, Texas, USA
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Cheers,
Dmitry Yaitskov,
Toronto, Canada.