Regarding yesterday's Easton rear wheel post, I received a comment saying:
"For rear wheel building, shouldn't you drive in the radial tension first, and handle the lateral truing afterward?"
That's absolutely right. Of course it is.
What I wanted to show with this post was the increase in spoke tension adjustment on the non-freewheel side due to changing spoke gauges.
So I made a point of showing both the amount of center offset in the original state and the amount of center offset after loosening three full turns and then tightening three full turns.
Since lateral runout at that three-turn-tightened stage could potentially change the center offset amount depending on the phase,
I only corrected the lateral runout first and wrote about that—
but from that point forward, I built it in the proper order: radial (vertical) truing first, then lateral truing.
I also wrote in the post that "I'll true the radial runout later."
At the three-turn-tightened stage, there was barely any radial runout to begin with,
so even if I had gone ahead and driven in the radial tension,
I don't think it would have significantly changed the center offset variation I wanted to highlight
(I'm already dismissing the paper-thickness offset in the original state as "negligible" anyway),
so I deliberately didn't touch it.
I apologize that this intention didn't come across clearly,
and that my explanation was confusing.
Thank you for the comment.
One more thing.
Another person (someone I actually know) left a comment pointing out that the rim is an EA90, not an EC90.
Man, I really did get that wrong off the top of my head.
I've corrected it. My apologies for the mistake.
"For rear wheel building, shouldn't you drive in the radial tension first, and handle the lateral truing afterward?"
That's absolutely right. Of course it is.
What I wanted to show with this post was the increase in spoke tension adjustment on the non-freewheel side due to changing spoke gauges.
So I made a point of showing both the amount of center offset in the original state and the amount of center offset after loosening three full turns and then tightening three full turns.
Since lateral runout at that three-turn-tightened stage could potentially change the center offset amount depending on the phase,
I only corrected the lateral runout first and wrote about that—
but from that point forward, I built it in the proper order: radial (vertical) truing first, then lateral truing.
I also wrote in the post that "I'll true the radial runout later."
At the three-turn-tightened stage, there was barely any radial runout to begin with,
so even if I had gone ahead and driven in the radial tension,
I don't think it would have significantly changed the center offset variation I wanted to highlight
(I'm already dismissing the paper-thickness offset in the original state as "negligible" anyway),
so I deliberately didn't touch it.
I apologize that this intention didn't come across clearly,
and that my explanation was confusing.
Thank you for the comment.
One more thing.
Another person (someone I actually know) left a comment pointing out that the rim is an EA90, not an EC90.
Man, I really did get that wrong off the top of my head.
I've corrected it. My apologies for the mistake.