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Given the HS code on the NDS flange, I reckon they're made by Hubsmith.

Found it. Hubsmith HS-R011R

Rad thanks

The bad news if you want one is that the MOQ appears to be 10.

Good to know.

Yeah I just saw. That’s a shame.
I was only wondering as a friend has the hunts and they look and sound quite nice but don’t appear to be for sale other than wholesale

Maybe Hubsmith need a UK retail distributor then. PhilDAS Wheel Components Ltd has a nice ring to it.

That's an idea - the hubs are DT clones I picked up cheap, I might try a few goes at measuring manually then find the DT specs & see how close a replica they actually are

Thanks, these are what i'm hoping for but I cant find a 32 hole symmetric in stock anywhere.

Looks like a Hubsmith -

https://www.hubsmith.com/product_detail.php?Key=16

EDIT - too slow

Any recommended wheelbuilders in Walthamstow?

@arup used to collect from Racer Rosa I think and can be recommended.

Paging @thecycleclinic - though I expect he knows wide & shiny silver rims are in demand...

Though I was actually thinking of rebuilding a silver set with Mavic A319s. Depends what you’re using them for I guess, bling Sunday rides or just bombing around.

In 2021, silver carbon rims will be a thing. A shiny mirror silver laquer on carbon. You heard it here first.

To go with your Cromovelato plastic bike, presumably.

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So who all uses spoke tension meters when building and what one have you got?

It's a side of wheelbuilding I've not gotten into...yet, but I think I want to.

Park tool tm1

A Chinese copy of the Park Tool TM-1, for just under €20. Questionable calibration of course.

So as I understand it, they all measure deflection which you then have to convert via some sort of chart to an actual tension?

My mate has lent me a DT Swiss one but he said he struggled to work with it as the chart it comes with only relates to DT Swiss spokes so if you're measuring say, an ACI spoke then you have to find the DT Swiss spoke that most closely resembles your spoke which might involve converting gauge to mm...sounds like a right faff.

He says he really just used it to compare one spoke to another.

I wonder if you can use the chart from the Park meter with the measurements from the DT Swiss. I'm thinking that not being tied to one brand of spokes the Park chart might be more easily applied across the board if that makes sense?

Questionable calibration of course.

So do you use it to work out the actual tension or just to compare tensions between spokes?

So who all uses spoke tension meters when building and what one have you got?

Park TM1 here, but about to upgrade to a Wheel Fanatyk digital.

36h hub on 18h rim. On a scale of 1-10 how bad is this lacing pattern?

Crows foot? I’m sure it’s fine.

I recently tried to do 2x on a 18h rim. I had it almost completely laced before I realized the challenge of doing that.

Wait, so silver rims with a black brake track? 🤯

Mainly the latter and a bit of the first, I think it will be fine for a ballpark but I would be hesitant to use it on rims with a strict upper limit such as some Stan's rims that are very prone to cracking.