Mamba wrote:
"G.T." wrote in message
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Gazza wrote:
Shawn wrote:

CowPunk wrote:
Does working on one section of a wheel rim often/usually cause another
section to go out of true?
You should have adjusted the spokes on the opposite side of the wheel,
not just the ones on the opposite side of the rim.
'Splain that one, if you would.

Glad you posted that. I thought it was just me being thick ;-)

To keep things in round.

Greg

If I adjusted the spokes in opposite directions (some tighter, some looser)
at the point of the wow, doesn't the "net" tension on that side of the wheel
remain static? How can this affect the roundness of the wheel as a whole?

It doesn't. If, for example, the rim is further from the hub over four
spokes, causing it to bulge out radially along that length, and you
tighten those spokes to pull the bulge in, the overall spoke tension of
the entire wheel increases, but not much, and the increase isn't
localized exactly opposite to the site you just tightened. Rather it
gets spread to all of the spokes. A spoked wheel doesn't behave exactly
like a rigid disk.

Shawn