Originally Posted by
FBinNY
Yep, we were all too stupid to know you can't do it that way.
I wonder if this is a reason wheel building had(has?) the reputation of being such a black art. It had to be done mostly by feel and intuition, and needed extensive experience. Now we have better tools, digital tensionometers, and online resources to break down the data. I'm a numbers person so the latter greatly helps me get a feel for what's going on, others it may just confuse the issue. At least it helps someone like me to be able to build a reasonably good wheel.