Thread: How to pick target spoke tension?
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Old 02-26-24, 02:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Ryan_M
Ahh... post #45 was me. Sorry for the confusion, I thought I had mentioned this was a "so far" state of affairs. It's only mid way tensioned and only starting to smooth things out, not at all a finished product. The initial intention was to show mpetry912 the graphs I'm working with to contrast with the software he's using - since I haven't seen software where I can define my own spring constant. Cheers.
OK, so set the elbows and uniformly add tension BEFORE making any adjustments.
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