Originally Posted by
Bill Kapaun
Your NDS tension will be somewhere between 50-70% of DS tension.
Since you apparently have a tension meter I would-
Loosen all spokes & start from scratch.
Shoot for about 110kgf on the DS.
NDS will be wherever it ends up to dish.
I'd get DS up about 100 kgf before I got serious on the NDS. Just keep th NDS pretty even although low to start.
BTW- Loosing the DS as much as you tighten the NDS will result in too low on the DS.
Thanks for this suggestion. It was a good exercise starting with a completely loose wheel, gradually tensioning it and paying attention to how the rim moved as I was going along. I eventually got everything fairly tight and started checking the tensions on the drive side. Set tension for all DS spokes at right around 110 and adjusted NDS to keep the rim true. Then checked the dish and had to loosen all the NDS spokes a bit to get the dish right.
My biggest problem was trying to adjust the dish by flipping the wheel in the TS-8. It's really difficult to get it to register in the same spot everytime. Nonetheless I have my wheel true to within about a mm and the dish within 2mm or so. It's the straightest wheel I've got now.
I should find the time to do this with each of my wheels at some point. Thanks again.