>>1679973>There is simply no getting around owning a spoke tension meter.THIS! I was making so many mistakes until someone told me how to use it and I invested in a cheap one from aliex. On the other hand, old schoolers find it useless and its useless for them since they can measure tension by feel or sound with NO begginer is able to. Before getting a tension device, I was doing 3 dimension and totalyl ignoring the tesnion, one road front wheel I trued myeself almost failed on the descent since tensions were all over the place...Praise the Lord for keeping me safe on that one!
>>1679987I as well though that phrase "Equalling the tensions" was some mumbo jumbo roadie snobs use to one up each other but later realized that equaling spoke tension is far more important than having radial or lateral true 100%, wheel becomes so much stronger if you equate tensions.
You dont have to get a trainer or a truing stand, getting a tension meter is far more important (as for dishing tool - diy it with a piece of wood for 5$, it works great), you can even true it radially with tires on - radial trueness is far more connected to equal spoke tensions than lateral trueness, so there is another reason to get any kind of tension meter.
I recommend reading wheelfanatyk blogs - it opened my eyes after years of doing it the wrong way.
>>1679989>What do you think is easier, building a wheel, or truing a fucked wheel?truing a messed up wheel imo - because on many of them you cant equal the spoke tension because of rims being bent so in order to keep it straight spoke tension has to be all over the place (unless you cold forged it before tensioning, but that creates other issues...)
