Can spokes be cut and rethreaded????

[Guest Big H]

This handy little gadget from Park Tools will surely grace my toolbox soon.

 

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Images/Models/Full/16786.jpg

 

Park Tool Park Ruler

 

This handy shop aid is ideal for sizing spokes, ball bearings and crank cotters. To use, just hang the head of the spoke in the oblong hole and read its length on the scale. For crank cotters and ball bearings it works just like a gauge for drill bits. Spoke lengths are in both metric and fractional markings. Made of anodized aluminum with embossed markings to allow easy reading and long life.

 

But this remark from ........ Eirik from Norway made me think.......

This tool does the job perfectly, and I never thought cutting spokes to the right lenght could be as easy as this! The material is solid, yet light, and there are several other nifty features included. Buy it!

 

Surely spokes can be cut but I would think the spoke would be held in a collet chuck as the tensions during thread cutting may "wind" up the spoke.

 

Any ideas?????

[intern]

Yep you can cut spokes and rethread them.When I used to build wheels in a shop I worked in in Maritzburg, we used to trim down spokes to radially spoke the front wheel and the non-drive side on the back wheel.

 

Probably going to get a pasting from JB on why radial spoking's no good, but we used to race those suckers every weekend, train on them every day and never a problem.

 

[Guest Big H]

I dream of radially spoked front wheels on the tandem. A friend had a 18 spokes Campagnolo Atlanta deep profile wheel drilled to 36 holes and had the wheel built radially spoked. It looks soooo sexy!!!!!!

PS I do not really care about Jan Boreman's opinion as he is opinionated by nature...... he cannot help it.

[Slave]

Easier to go down to the LBS and just buy some spokes dude. Unless they don't carry the correct size.

Cutting and re-threading just sounds like too much work. I'd rather use the time and go for a ride.

[TNT1]

 

I'd rather use the time and go for a ride.

...beer.

 

[Wyatt Earp]

Big H

 

I have mentioned in the "what rim" thread that ,spokes can be threaded, but instead of cutting them the thread gets rolled on.

I have a spoke threader and it's not a difficult job but unless you are going to build loads of wheels, rather access the DT spoke calculator and get the correct lenghts of spokes needed and ask your LBS to get them for you.

Those threading tools are quite costly.

Summit Cycles2008-10-09 07:48:24

[Guest Big H]

Big H

 

I have mentioned in the "what rim" thread that ' date='spokes can be threaded, but instead of cutting them the thread gets rolled on.

I have a spoke threader and it's not a difficult job but unless you are going to build loads of wheels, rather access the DT spoke calculator and get the correct lenghts of spokes needed and ask your LBS to get them for you.

Those threading tools are quite costly.

[/quote']

 

Ok so a normal tap and die will not work. I do not have the "normal" LBS here in southern Angola and have to do all maintenance on the MTB tandem myself. I do have a full set of spares and tools and though a leetle tap and die will do the thing for various legnths.

 

Thanx for the info.

[Johan Bornman]

Ok so a normal tap and die will not work. I do not have the "normal" LBS here in southern Angola and have to do all maintenance on the MTB tandem myself. I do have a full set of spares and tools and though a leetle tap and die will do the thing for various legnths.

 

Thanx for the info.

 

This is a tap:

http://www.yuvrajtools.com/images/main_tap.jpg

 

 

I can't see where on the spoke you'll use the tap. But like you say, Boreman's opinion doesn't matter.

 

 

 

[Dicky DQ]

I dream of radially spoked front wheels on the tandem. A friend had a 18 spokes Campagnolo Atlanta deep profile wheel drilled to 36 holes and had the wheel built radially spoked. It looks soooo sexy!!!!!!

 

 

AHA he is becoming a believer!!!!!! long live the fishing reel brothers!!!!

[intern]

Oy Dick fix the spelling in your signature! A loser is a loser, but looser is just not as tight.  

[intern]

This is also a tap.

 

[Dicky DQ]

Ok so a normal tap and die will not work. I do not have the "normal" LBS here in southern Angola and have to do all maintenance on the MTB tandem myself. I do have a full set of spares and tools and though a leetle tap and die will do the thing for various legnths.

 

Thanx for the info.

 

This is a tap:

http://www.yuvrajtools.com/images/main_tap.jpg

 

 

I can't see where on the spoke you'll use the tap. But like you say' date=' Boreman's opinion doesn't matter.

 

 

 

[/quote']

 

Look JB give the man a break he is comming over to the dark side for him.

 

He did however indicate a Tap and Die. Naturally the Die woyld be used on the spoke or not?????

 

These are Dies

[Dicky DQ]

Oy Dick fix the spelling in your signature! A loser is a loser' date=' but looser is just not as tight.   [/quote']

 

Sorted, however you missed the easier one "Untill"

[Dicky DQ]

Ooi still wrong

[GoLefty!!]

I would not cut thread onto a spoke.

Spoke threads are rolled. This process results in a slight increase in the diameter of the thread compared to the spoke shank. Cutting thread results in a slight decrease in diameter and thus problems with good thread interface between the nipple and spoke.

also s/steel spokes are pretty hard, and cutting thread requires patience and skill to get the thread start correct and aligned with the spoke length.

 

rather buy the correct length.

[Wyatt Earp]

Big H

 

I have mentioned in the "what rim" thread that ' date='spokes can be threaded, but instead of cutting them the thread gets rolled on.

I have a spoke threader and it's not a difficult job but unless you are going to build loads of wheels, rather access the DT spoke calculator and get the correct lenghts of spokes needed and ask your LBS to get them for you.

Those threading tools are quite costly.

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