This is going out on a limb because I didn't look at the link listed. I think this issue is about when DT lengthened the "elbow" of the spokes. Man, what a bad deal that was!
I don't think they should/would make a wheel harder to build or keep in true. They broke way, way sooner. When I figured out what had happened, I called DT and they said that more was being made of it and it wasn't such a big deal. My reputation as a wheelbuilder depends on the spokes lasting a long time and I thought it was a huge deal! We live and learn.
Chuck Hoefer
Pacific Coast Cycles
Oceanside, Calif.
>I really appreciated the post which contained the like to Peter's website
> discussion of DT spoke changes. I had been using really old DT spokes
> from
> a LBS that had a Phil spoke machine.
>
> About 3 years ago I bought a box of DT spokes to build a matching front
> and
> rear pair. Second pair had the rear wheel with the new spokes and the
> front with old. The wheels I built with the new box have been just icky
> and
> has had me scratching my head because the front with old spokes is just
> fine.
>
> By the by the matched set was 700 c and the mismatched spoke wheel were
> 650
> b.
> Howard Darr
> Kinsman OH USA
>
>
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