Another context in which a tensiometer has some utility is when you're building up rims with tension limits below the common average, such as the original extrusion Pacenti PL23.
I'm also a very amateur wheelbuilder. The last set of wheels I built up used the older Pacenti rims, and I was a little nervous about the 90 kgf tension limit. As an experiment, I built the wheelset using a Park tensiometer at all stages of the operation. I put together a spreadsheet where I could enter the numbers for each spoke as I worked around the wheel, and got each wheel trued up in seven circuits around. The downside is that it's a pretty neurotic way to build a wheel. The upside is that they're the best set of wheels I've ever built, they've held true for about 500 miles, and they're safely within the manufacturer's comparatively low tension requirements if I should ever need to exercise Kirk Pacenti's lifetime warranty. Park has an online tension balancing application to tell you whether your numbers are within the acceptable range of variance - but of course, you have to have tension numbers to put in. http://www.parktool.com/wtb Peter Adler every day, in every way, my wheels are getting better and better Berkeley, CA/USA On Monday, August 17, 2015 at 7:27:50 AM UTC-7, Pudge wrote: > > FWIW, the Park tensiometer has been, for me, one of the most useful tools > I've purchased, even given its ~$70 price tag. I'm not a very experienced > wheelbuilder (I've probably built fewer than 30 wheels), but the relatively > constant tension that I can assure using the tensiometer, together with the > round and true assurance that comes from a good truing stand, gives me a > lot of comfort that my wheels are sound. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
