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Old 11-08-08, 04:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Glynis27
The red spokes are all between 72 and 125Kfg. The light blue are 0-30. Same goes for the other side of the wheel. Not sure what final tension I should be shooting for with butted spokes.
That's a pretty large difference in spoke tension and some really tight spokes on the non-disc side. On the non-disc side, you shouldn't have any spokes over 100 kgf unless you are running a lot of tension on the disc side. On the wheel I just built, my disc side spokes were at 110 kgf and the non-disc side ended up at 73 kgf to get the dish correct.

I'd recommend starting over and paying more attention to keeping the wheel dished properly as you bring up the tension. Basically, start paying attention to the dish early on so that you don't end up with such tight spokes on the non-disc side. Hopefully the end result with be much more even tension.
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