Wheelbuilding / Wheel Building / Wheel build help

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Turkish in reply to @Cranky

leave the wheel for the oil to cure now

If anything you should be riding it immediately after building. Youd rather any movement thats going to occur to happen before the oil cures, else when they do loosen after curing there'll be nothing holding them in place.

A well built, even tension wheel thats been properly destressed shouldnt have any nipple movement after the build whatsoever

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Cranky in reply to @Turkish

else when they do loosen after curing there'll be nothing holding them in place

What do you mean by that? Surely loosening after curing is no different to having built without linseed oil. A hard 10 miles today and no movement or pinging plus the tension was even, within 5% and still is.

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Turkish in reply to @Cranky

I guess thats true. If the tension is so uneven that spokes will unwind even with cured linseed oil, you were fucked to begin with

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