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i re-read your top post... so... thespokes were tightened until the ran out of threads, and were still way too loose, right?
are you certain you laced the wheel correctly? check again, even if "certain", ok?
i just measured a A 7400 front, with open pro rim... came up with @ 299 actually tensioned length... so it might have stretched a bit under tension... and no, i'm not going to remove a spoke to check untensioned length, since the wheel is dead on right now... ;-) it's a 36 spoke, but that won't vary the length much, i'd think....
does anyone know how much, if any, spoke lengths change when lacing less spokes?
Last edited by maddog34; 06-28-17 at 07:43 PM.