Originally Posted by
FBinNY
If they've mastered the basics there's no reason to be afraid of twisting with thin spokes. It's just something to be managed.
The key words there being "if they've mastered the basiss..."
Originally Posted by
FBinNY
Spokes can then be untwisted either in batches as the wheel moves through tightening stages, or near the final stages as each nipple is turned.
That doesn't work if the spokes are twisted past yield. The reason I got back into wheelbuiding was that I got a really bad wheel from a local builder, and I have always thought that the problem was that several spokes were twisted past the yield point. That guy had built a lot of wheels, but he didn't understand what little margin of error there is when tensioning a 10 speed wheel. He hadn't "mastered the basics..."
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