What if you have to readjust the spokes after you have them glued?
I believe in the fact that truly adjusted spokes do not have to be tightened every now and then, even if there’s a lot of torque. Forgive me if I am underestimating you and give you advice you’ve already done or knew about.
I’ll suggest that you loosen all spokes and make sure the rim is round and straight without any spokes.
Tighten all the nipples ‘till you don’t see the threads (with your fingers, no tools).
Tighten the nipples half a turn at the time and knock on them to hear their tone (should be the same if the spokes are the same length. Check the roundness and the straightness as you make it tighter.
Press the spokes two and two (with your glove protected hand) to stress relief them and keep on make the tone higher.
The correct tightness of the spokes is a hard thing to explain and I will not even try to. I have an idea though which maybe isn’t realistic. There are expensive spoke tensiometers, which means there must be a table somewhere with the correct tension for a given length and diameter. If we know all this, it should be possible to calculate the correct tone on the spoke and use a cheap tuning device to tune them to the correct tension.
Peter
