Originally Posted by
Unca_Sam
I'm not advising him to go up to 170, I'm trying to get across the point that it's not rocket science. The tension meter shouldn't be used to determine tension on a single spoke, but to take a survey of tensions on all the spokes to find high and low values and adjust them to the average tension for the side.
The problem is it looked like you were offering a legitimate number and people who have no clue what they're doing, OP being a potential case in point, might take it at face value. I try to never underestimate the ability of people to make really stupid decisions based on perceived information.
Agree on everything else.