How are machine-built wheels made?
03-15-16 | 06:43 PM
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How are machine-built wheels made?
I'm having a hard time picturing a machine doing everything involved with building a wheel -- taking a rim, weaving spokes, adding oil, faniggling nipples on the ends of spokes, doing all the adjustments and checkings to true the wheel, etc.
Is it really 100% machine built, or does that mean a machine just did part of the work somehow?
Any decent Seasame Street youtube videos showing a production line of machines building wheels? It sounds like something that would well for that format.
Is it really 100% machine built, or does that mean a machine just did part of the work somehow?
Any decent Seasame Street youtube videos showing a production line of machines building wheels? It sounds like something that would well for that format.
03-15-16 | 07:28 PM
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They're not 100% machine-built. It just means the spoke tensioning and truing weren't done manually. The "How It's Made" video below shows wheels being made, including manual and machine spoke tensioning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYUOLGEPw9Q
There are plenty of other videos, too...
https://youtu.be/Am_8X8BnY7o
https://youtu.be/5lGKdRxdYKI
https://youtu.be/EITEQLn8SUE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYUOLGEPw9Q
There are plenty of other videos, too...
https://youtu.be/Am_8X8BnY7o
https://youtu.be/5lGKdRxdYKI
https://youtu.be/EITEQLn8SUE
Last edited by SkyDog75; 03-15-16 at 07:37 PM.
