Originally Posted by
himespau
Oh it didn't take long to lace them. It's the truing that takes forever. I get them true within the current settings of the stand, stress relieve by squeezing paired spokes, true, stress relieve, true, set the stand feelers closer together and repeat. Then I check tension, find some are way over and some are way under, so I unscrew back to where I can see a single thread and start over. Well, then I take a day or two off because I'm ticked off. Or currently, I've got it true, but I know that I'm not going to be happy with the tension because I can see a thread on one of the spokes and that means starting over, again. I guess I just suck at truing. It seems like tightening one spoke a quarter turn while loosening the neighboring spokes each a quarter turn shouldn't be rocket science, but apparently it is because I suck at it. Didn't have this problem with my last build (using Sapim Race instead of Laser), so I'm blaming it on wind up with thinner spokes, but I just suck at it.
...I'm not certain why all the stress relieving. The stress you are relieving is in the head elbow, and this is done by
somehow pulling the spoke tight beyond the elastic limits of the material, to slightly straighten that elbow opposite
the direction it was bent in the manufacturing process.....thus relieving some of the the stresses in the bend.
Maybe you are talking about compensating for windup ? Stress relieving is done (at least by me) once in the process,
possibly twice if i look at the spoke lines at the hub flange at the final stage and see some daylight there.
Maybe that might save you some time ? Also, I find that i can no longer really press the paired spokes together
hard enough by hand to do this reliably, so i have started using an orphan non drive crank arm, hooked between
the pairs and pressed in with the palm of the hand. Just what I do, I don't want to go all Jobst Brandt on you.