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Old 08-11-07 | 09:39 PM
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Originally Posted by DLBroox
Ok, now I answered my own question. I took the wheel apart after realizing it was too big a mess, and redid it using Sheldon's info. Went together in a half hour and looks pretty good before I've even started to really true it.

Pretty sure I would never use the Schraner method again. Also did some research on the web, and lots of others seem to have the same complaint.

Anybody read the book by Roger Musson: Wheel Building?
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Musson's book seems to ahve some good tips as well, but I haven't built from it. Recently I was planning to build, but I'm buying custom instead.

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