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someone remind me, should leading or trailing be head-out?
The only place it can make any difference is on the drive side rear [disc rotor side front], where you should lace the pulling spokes heads out if you also interlace the spokes at the outer crossing. That way, the driving [braking] load tends to pull the crossing away from the dérailleur [brake caliper]
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OK here's a question:
If you had a hub (old, bit knackered but worth rebuilding cos it's a 'classic' - BHC Airlite high flange to be exact) that had been laced oddly before, going by the spoke marks, in that the leading spokes are head-out on one side, head-in the other - rebuilding with spokehead washers, would you: relace as before, as is the 'received wisdom', or correct the error and lace correctly? And, someone remind me, should leading or trailing be head-out?