Morning guys
I'm in the process of building my first set of wheels, which seems to be going really well at the moment, i'm using chris king r45 hubs, h son plus architype rims and sapim race spokes. 28 hole front and rear.
I think i'm going to buy a park spoke tension meter, but i'm struggling to find the correct spoke tension for the rims. Is this something manufacturers usually supply or is it with the spoke makers?
Any guidance on where i can find it, or usual tensions people use would be great please!
I've laced them two cross at the moment, is there much benefit to going three cross instead of two?
I can't remember the actual force, but using the basic park meter's scale it's about 16-18 for 1.5mm spokes and 20-22 for 1.8mm spokes for Stans rims IIRC, guess they'd be similar. It's usualy limited by the rim manufacturer as the rim will give way long before the spokes snap.