The Legitimiser
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Southampton, UK
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Bikes: Gazelle Trim Trophy, EG Bates Track Bike, HR Bates Cantiflex bike, Nigel Dean fixed gear conversion, Raleigh Royal, Falcon Westminster.
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Spoke Length Rounding
I'm building a wheelset that's requiring me to do all sorts of nonsense like mixing spoke lengths. What I'm wondering is, how to round. Spocalc gives me lengths to .1 of a mm, but of course, that's not how spokes work. I'm assuming I need to do this:
180.3 - round up to 181
180.2 - round up to 180
179.2 - round up to 180
175.3 - round up to 176
174.2 - round up to 175
In other words, round up to the nearest mm. Sometimes, the nearest I can get is more than a mm over, for instance, I can't find 181's, only 180, and 182. Is this going to cause me a problem?
In other news, finding the lengths I want in black isn't working out either....