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i had to take my newly built wheel to jimbilly - though it felt sound i thought it best to get an experience eye cast over it
The first time i took it to him i had laced the spokes to the wrong side of the rim but got it true to less than .5mm - i had used an old wheel as the guide for tension but Jim explained that as spokes tend to loosen up in use that a used wheel is possibly a little slacker than you would wish to build a new one.
used one of those spoke tension measuring devices inthe workshop, the first time i had built it up and it was measuring around 20 (and now i cannot remember the units). Hillbilly suggests around 25 is an appropriate tension - so when i rebuilt it with the spokes to the correct side of the rim I made it tighter and the spokes came in around 23 or 24 (aargh it fucks me off to forget the units).