Originally Posted by
daveornee
http://www.bbinstitute.com/DX%20Demo%20Chap%2017.pdf
is the best resource I have found.
I think it is very difficult to provide video of the details, but I think that there are always ways to do it better. Nothing beats dialog & actual demonstration with someone who really knows what is going on and how to use the tools.
Tension gauge is a tool that is also needed, but not mentioned in these clips.
I started with Jobst Brandt's book, but I have now come to more closely agree with Barnette's instructions.
I find Barnett cumbersome. Roger Musson's e-book is so much better. The guy who wrote the above chapter doesn't know what stress relieving is too, even though he alludes to Jobst Brandts book. So he makes the blatant mistake that the parallel spoke squeezing has something to do with reducing spoke wind-up. He also finds the "back-off the spoke" procedure inefficient (not my experience at all, even with 130Kgf spoke tension on Campagnolo hubs), so instead of avoiding spoke wind-up when building the wheel, he actually suggests some cumbersome ritual of side loading the wheel afterward to release the probably wast amount of spoke wind-up, which of course will result in instantly wobbling the wheel so it needs truing again. The spoke wind-up also nullifies the cumbersome spoke tensiometer calculation that is suggested earlier in the chapter.
I think that the major difference between Jobst Brandt's book and this chapter is, that Jobst Brandt is a engineer and pioneer in the scientific description of how wheels function and therefore knows what he is talking about, while the guy who wrote the Barnett chapter doesn't have any engineering background at all.
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Regards