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Old 05-01-13 | 11:31 AM
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Originally Posted by jimmuller
I've been thinking of building up some wheels on a set of high-flange Normandy hubs. So I went to Edd, the ever-handy spoke length calculator and selected the Normandy high-flange front, then the Sun CR-18 27", 3x, 36H. The spoke lengths it computed were 295.4mm left, 295.1mm right.

The hub data shows it to be symmetric, as I would expect. I would expect the rim to be symmetric too. So why the .3mm difference????
You always round down anyhow so it matters not. 36 @ 295mm will do it.
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