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Old 12-14-13, 08:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Drew Eckhardt
You can also stretch the spokes past their elastic limit by bending them about each other at their outer crossing using something softer than steel like a brass drift (my favorite), plastic screw driver handle, or old left crank.
I've been using the same broken boom handle for almost 40 years.
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