RE: [CR]Wheelbuilding Questions

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Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:54:16 +1100
From: "Geoffrey Robert Duke" <gduke@unimelb.edu.au>
Subject: RE: [CR]Wheelbuilding Questions
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To: John Hurley <JHurley@jdabrams.com>
Thread-Topic: [CR]Wheelbuilding Questions
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Hi John I have always deburred both the rim eyelets and the valve hole. To start out with I did it because that was the way I was taught. At a later date I encountered some wheels where the head had been milled off the nipple. I have come to believe that by deburring the eyelets this is less likely to happen Geoff Duke Melbourne Australia

-----Original Message----- From: John Hurley [mailto:JHurley@jdabrams.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 6:37 AM To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: [CR]Wheelbuilding Questions

Have any of you found a need or value in preparing/cleaning/deburring the rim eyelets on the inside, so the spoke nipples will seat well? How about deburring and smoothing the valve stem hole? Is there any harm in reaming the valve stem hole from Presta size to Shraeder size?
Thanks,
John Hurley
Austin, Texas, USA