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  • dogsballs i was a little bored yesterday and relaced an old 36 miche low flange hub to 3 leading 3 trailing, about 2/3 of the spokes ended up poking back into the rim, nothing a bit of filing didn't fix. so if you are doing 3 lead 3 trail get shorter spokes ;)

    I reckon with 3l3t it all depends how you lace them. If you only lace the outer spokes of each group of 3 you may find that some spokes seem a bit long. I did a thorough job of lacing my 3l3t and crossed the spokes as per http://www.terminalvelocity.demon.co.uk/WheelBuild/ I found that the spokes all ended up about the same distance through the nipples.

    Here is the lacing pic from "terminalvelocity" ...

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