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Thanks scherrit, yes the wheels felt quite spongy (and comfortable!) before, where as they now ride stiffer like the properly built wheels on my other bikes. I'll probably back off just a bit on the front to put it just under 100, should be a 1/4 turn loosen on all spokes or thereabouts.
allister - I used the Park TM-1 spoke tensiometer, for the final values I took an average of all my measurements in a spreadsheet, I am confident it is correct as the left and right side averaged to exactly the same (to the nth decimal point!) on the rear and the front was very close too, although I had to make some adjustments for dish on the front which may be why there was a very slight difference.
For the original 75 Kgf value I remember checking the spokes originally at random, and they were all around 20 on the Park translation sheet, which is roughly 75Kgf. It was less scientific than my latter measurement though...