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Given that Jobst Brandt was ... opinionated about tensiometers, I'd disagree. (well, he was opinionated about most everything) I think he'd like this system, a
by wiredfool 5y ago
Given that Jobst Brandt was ... opinionated about tensiometers, I'd disagree. (well, he was opinionated about most everything)
I think he'd like this system, as it provides a faster way to properly build up a wheel with well balanced, proper tension. The recording options would be welcomed as documentation of the wheel build.
- StayTrue 5y agoI like to think Brandt would approve. But he would probably have some thoughts and not spare my feelings haha. Thanks for your contributions about wheels elsewhere in this thread (I've restricted my comments to the tooling). You demonstrate knowledge that is uncommon even among people paid to work on wheels.
- wiredfool 5y agoThanks, I appreciate the recognition. When I was doing my masters in Civil/Structural (with a big side of FEA), I was somewhat obsessed with understanding bike wheels, as far as I could. Even spent a couple weeks while procrastinating on my project doing basically nothing but looking at old books (Theory of Elastic Stability, Timeshenko and Gere) and writing FEA model generators for wheels. Between that, a basic understanding from rec.bicycles.tech (including Brandt), his book, and wheel builds, I think I got there.
- wiredfool 5y agoAnd now I've found the _archive_ of Jobst and r.b.t. https://yarchive.net/bike/index.html https://yarchive.net/bike/index.html And I'm sure that's only a portion of what he posted.