H2RTuner wrote:
Magoo, simply true the rim. When done, go back over each spoke, confirm all have tension. If not, thighten the loose ones, then retrue. Loose ones are ones you can still turn with your fingers, no tension at the rim.
Buchanon's are the only ones that have an arbitrary uniform starting torque. This gets all the Buchanon spokes to an equal starting point, true, final true from there. If done correctly, works with any spoke type.
Please also realize their spec is in INCH POUNDS, not foot pounds. Their "50 inch pounds" is roughly 4.17 foot pounds (not excessively over tight). Some of us have one torque wrench or the other, a handful have both. Being able to work either type wrench, with the correct value, is essential.
Go slow, and, all my friends and I used to have contests on whom of us could get a wheel trued as straight as possible. Hurley and I would always get them less than .005 true, except ag the weld, and cranks l had less than one half thousandth out. Most of the cranks we did were dead zero true.
Truing, what fun, go slow, it is well worth getting them as true as possibly.
Thanks for the tips, I know the Buchanon spokes are inch pound which is 5.6Nm in the rest of the world, my wrench has both scales. Are you saying that Buchanon recommend starting at a torque value for the spokes and then start trueing the wheel? I am a machinist by trade if you can true a wheel to 5/1000 then you are doing very well I bet that took some time. Thanks again for the Tips.