Has spokes changed that much? According to a chart in Jobst's book, the yield strength of spokes was something like twice or thrice the tension typically applied in a normal wheel. The spokes are typically not any thinner than are currently available to mitigate spoke windup from to low torsional strength. I actually have some experience with this as building with 2.0/1.5 spokes, especially on the rear drive side, is a bit of a pain.
On Friday, August 1, 2014 7:17:03 AM UTC-7, Anton Tutter wrote: > > The idea is that you want the spokes to be in the "sweet spot" between > always being tensioned yet never reaching the limit of their elastic > modulus. Too much tension will stress the eyelets and hub flanges, and you > also approach the limit of the spoke elastic modulus; Too little tension > and the spokes will not maintain enough tension as the wheel deflects. > > Anton > > > On Thursday, July 31, 2014 9:01:49 PM UTC-4, M D Smith wrote: >> >> I've always understood that the higher the tension, the stronger the >> wheel. >> >> I haven't re-read the Brandt book for a number of years, but isn't his >> technique effectively "get the spokes so tight that the wheel starts to >> taco, then back off a bit?" >> >> Mike in Htfd CT >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
