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Letting Spoke Prep dry before building

Old 07-05-08, 12:29 AM
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Letting Spoke Prep dry before building

I'm building up my first set of wheels and bought rims and spokes from my LBS. They dipped the spokes in spoke prep for me, since they don't sell the stuff. Now that it's dry though, won't it make building and truing harder? Should I have built the wheelset right away? And if so, is there a way to clean the spoke prep off? Thanks!
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It will make it a bit harder, but you should be able to handle it. Just make sure you stress relieve the spokes before checking tension.
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Dry spoke prep shouldn't be a problem. That's why you use it instead of something that really sticks like loctite.
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Spoke prep is SUPPOSED to be used dry. Don't sweat it.
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