Originally Posted by
Bill Kapaun
And cost is never an issue?
Inventory contain fewer items if you don't have to stock 2-3 different gauges of spokes in addition to the different lengths.
Wheel builders don't have to keep track or even bother with it.
It's simply more cost effective to churn out plain vanilla wheels "built" by robots.
It's only cost effective if you can sell them. If your wheel design had a high failure rate I'd think any wheel builder would change their design.
The OP, by the way, is asking about a pretty plain vanilla wheelset 36 spoke 3 cross. It's his first wheel build too. That being the case, I don't understand this fixation with 2-3 different spoke gauges and chasing the windup around. Sometimes boreing is good.