I agree with the comments here and I'd say go ahead and build it, too. The first couple of wheels I built by myself (dating back to the late 70's) were disasters - forgot to pay attention to placing the valve stem hole in the rim where the spokes are wide apart, ordered the wrong length spokes so that there was barely enough thread to accommodate the nipples, etc. But as time went along I caught on to the various details, consulted good advice (like Sheldon's), worked slowly and methodically. The last wheel I built, or rather re-built due to a bad crash back in '04 that taco'd the rim, used the same spokes along with a new rim. That wheel has never been touched since and it's still true with no broken spokes ever. BTW, I have to take exception with the advice about the dishing stick. No, you don't absolutely have to use one, but they sure make things easier. And simple ones are relatively inexpensive, as cheap as $30-$40, so why not just add one to your tool set.
On Monday, October 19, 2020 at 10:25:58 AM UTC-5 Steven Seelig wrote: > So with COVID and all, I've decided that now is the time to do stuff that > I haven't ever done before. Learning to speak French is perhaps a bridge > too far - not so good at language. But it seems reasonable to think that I > can at least build a front wheel with a Dyno hub to put on the Sam I ride > in the means streets of DC and on some gravel. > > I have a truing stand but not a dishing tool. I would say I am a > competent wrencher. Of course anyone who has built up a wheel did it once > for the first time. Is this something I should take on? What are the odds > for success? Will I quit in frustration? > > Points of view encouraged. > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/185e23e3-acc8-45e6-b95d-95afde453fb6n%40googlegroups.com.
