Originally Posted by
3alarmer
Make sure you stress relieved the elbows at the hub sufficiently and that
you have a decent, supported spoke line against the flange.
With much due respect... in many cases this is nearly impossible. Flanges made to the thin side.. using a brand of spoke having a larger elbow angle.. getting flange contact with the inbound NDS spoke requires some major bend to get any semblance of contact.
Would not a large bend applied to the spoke create a crease of sorts.. fracturing the metallurgy creating a weak area to give way?
I've seen pictorial examples online of bends applied to spokes that from what I see would nearly require a pliers to bend the elbow to that extent to make flange contact. Then those examples show the spoke head not resting uniformly in the flange hole.. I can not see that as ideal.
Most often given a decent build.. the inbound NDS spoke head is what gives way. Those spokes I believe can go zero tension given hard wheel impacts producing 'head slap'.. the spoke head actually moving out of the flange hole only to get slammed in again when the tension returns with wheel advancement. Possibly applying some bend to the spoke would act as a shock absorber of sorts.. preventing the head slap. [?].