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Because these rims were a tenner from my local bike charity and were just supposed to be a stopgap solution to learn wheelbuilding basics on. They're quite heavy and don't particularly suit the bike or do these Record hubs justice. If I'm spending 20 quid on new spokes I might as well just drop a bit more on shallow open pros or H+S tb14s and use my current spokes.
I'm mainly wondering if it's possible to do (symmetrical) 4 cross on 32h or I just messed up the lacing.
Drano
Picked up some cheap rims to replace a set of tubulars. New rims are deeper, so 2 cross and 3 cross both leave the spokes too long. 4 cross is impossible with 32h right? I tried and the final set of spokes was misaligned. Any other lacing options for too-long spokes before I bin these and get a proper set of shallow rims?