Originally Posted by
Stealthammer
So you don't think this wheel shows indications of uneven and overtightened spokes...
Having built close to 1000 wheelsets over the past 40 years, I beg to differ.....
I'm about 2,000 wheelsets up on you so.....
The sidewall marks have nothing to do with the wheel being over-tensioned, marks like that are/were very normal for properly tensioned wheels back in the day. Could the OP's wheel have failed due to over-tension? Yes, absolutely. But then again he 'bounced off of curbs' so who knows.
And a majority of the time cracking eyelets has nothing to do with over-tensioning.