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Heads out trailing is traditional, but it doesn't make enough difference to warrant building an old hub in the opposite sense to what has gone before
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Whenever I'm rebuilding a used hub I will tend to follow the original lacing pattern so that the holes don't get stretched. It's play at the hub hole that can cause a spoke to break. Also to cover up the path of the previously laced spoke. If the hole is already a bit stretched then I'll put on a spoke head washer.
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It’s symmetrical v asymmetrical lacing innit.
Depends how you start each side? I always start with the ‘inbound’ or heads out spokes.
Can’t remember what name is given to that method and neither way seems particularly symmetrical nor asymmetrical to me.
I’m sure I read somewhere or was told that people tend to build the way they learned, however you build your first few wheels is how you’ll probably build them for the rest of your life and that the difference in strength is so minimal that it’s not worth worrying about anyway.
I think I built one wheel the other way when it was a used hub as you are doing so I guess it’s a good skill to have.
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Ok getting a little confused trying to lace up a 2nd hand set of hubs to match the spoke marks on the flanges. The spokes (j bend) with the heads on the inside seemed to have been previously laced trailing to the left (rear of the bike ) on the drive side and leading to the left (front of the bike ) on the non drive side. Is this correct? It means they are effectively crossing in opposite directions. Following the park tools lacing pattern I thought they should be pointing in the same direction once the hub is twisted correctly
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