I picked up a couple of QS 212s, bare hubs.
Inspired by Eastwood's builds, I wanted to try my hand at lacing a wheel for my next builds.
Wheels - Chrome 19 inch moped rim
Spokes - 11 g aliexpress (not sure of awg, bought these way late at night and have no recollection as to what I ordered)
Edit - I measured the diameter of the spoke = 3.11 mm/0.1225 inch
The chrome wheel came with some rust, should have painted it with some rust oleum prior to lacing, ah well.
Lacing:
Dang, I had too much fun lacing the wheel, it took me 4 tries to get it right, but I did it, lacing was fun.
I got stuck in trying to torque the spokes, I did not want to drop money into buying a spoke torque thing. So I bust out my wheeler torque screw driver and used it to torque as much as I could
It is hard to torque it with the wheeler, I think I torqued it to 8 inch/lb and my girly fingers are not capable of more.
How much torque:
from stuff I read, moto spokes need about 30 inch/lb ???
should I settle for 10 inch/lb or go higher?
Prep:
I used marine grease at the nipples to lube them up.
Rim Prep:
I used the thin band I bought plus a lot of hockey tape to prep the rim.
Inspired by Eastwood's builds, I wanted to try my hand at lacing a wheel for my next builds.
Wheels - Chrome 19 inch moped rim
Spokes - 11 g aliexpress (not sure of awg, bought these way late at night and have no recollection as to what I ordered)
Edit - I measured the diameter of the spoke = 3.11 mm/0.1225 inch
The chrome wheel came with some rust, should have painted it with some rust oleum prior to lacing, ah well.
Lacing:
Dang, I had too much fun lacing the wheel, it took me 4 tries to get it right, but I did it, lacing was fun.
I got stuck in trying to torque the spokes, I did not want to drop money into buying a spoke torque thing. So I bust out my wheeler torque screw driver and used it to torque as much as I could
It is hard to torque it with the wheeler, I think I torqued it to 8 inch/lb and my girly fingers are not capable of more.
How much torque:
from stuff I read, moto spokes need about 30 inch/lb ???
should I settle for 10 inch/lb or go higher?
Prep:
I used marine grease at the nipples to lube them up.
Rim Prep:
I used the thin band I bought plus a lot of hockey tape to prep the rim.