Are you saying there was a French spoke thread that was different from Italian or Swiss spokes? I have to confess, I always thought that spokes were one item where everyone used the same thread for a given gauge. Maybe I've been wrong all these years. I admit I've never really tried mixing French spokes with DT nipples or vice versa.
Regards,
Jerry Moos
Big spring, Texsa, USA
> From: mrrabbit@mrrabbit.net <mrrabbit@mrrabbit.net>
> Subject: Re: [CR] Hi-E Nipple AND Spokes??????
> To: "Jerome & Elizabeth Moos" <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>
> Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Date: Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 6:14 PM
> Wow!
>
> You may have yourself in quite a bind here...
>
> I'm guessing you might have 63.5 TPI (French) or the TPI
> common to 120 spokes -
>
> the larger cousing to 105 spokes. Where to get 15g
> spokes with Hi-E
> threading...me totally clueless.
>
> Would standard nipples work? Might have to go that
> route unless someone else
> here comes to the rescue.
>
> =8-(
>
> (Been ages since I've worked on anything other than 56
> TPI)
>
>
> Robert Shackelford
> San Jose, CA USA
>
> Quoting Jerome & Elizabeth Moos <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>:
>
> > Well, in my continuing Hi-E Project, having destroyed
> one rim trying to true
> > a Hi-E wheel with old corroded spokes, I decided to
> respoke, but hoped to
> > reuse the special Hi-E nipples. The original
> spokes measure 15 ga on the
> > end, so I ordered some 15 ga DTs to rebuild
> with. But when they arrived
> > today, I found I cannot thread the Hi-E nipples more
> than a couple of turns
> > onto the DT 15 ga spokes. Did Hi-E make their
> own spokes as well as nipples?
> > Did they use a non-standard thread?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Jerry Moos
> >
> >
> >
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