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Planning to build the wheels for my budget DH bike or at least order some spokes, I've used the DT and Sapim calculators and got very different results for the back wheel.
For the front Sapim gave 256/255 and DT gave 257/256 so a mm difference, well two over a wheel I guess.
For the rear Sapim gave 255/256 and DT gave 257/259 which is quite a big difference.
The rims are Sun S-Type / MTX, the front hub a Nukeproof Generator bolt thru and the rear a Goldtec Draco of an unfathomable OLN due to frame been in loads of parts, brake arm etc, but since I've used the same OLM on both calculators it shouldn't be the fly in my ointment.
Any thoughts? I'm tempted to Order all 257 with 14mm nipples as I already have a box of 12mm nipples (somewhere) but it's ages since I built a wheel or calculated spoke lengths.
Cheers
Rob