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Offline roost250

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Re: Rims from India
« Reply #15 on: March 08, 2016, 09:43:12 PM »
I contacted torpedo7 and their rims require 8mm spoke nipples and the spokes i need (76 cr250m) are 6mm.  So no go for me.  Unless there are other spokes I can use? 

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Re: Rims from India
« Reply #16 on: March 10, 2016, 12:34:47 PM »
Roost,just order your CR spoke set/s to have 8mm nipples rather than the std 6mm ones, :P
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Re: Rims from India
« Reply #17 on: March 10, 2016, 08:07:41 PM »
You can usually get the 8mm ones in aluminium,  a bit of weight saving and "works bike" cred.  ;)
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Re: Rims from India
« Reply #18 on: March 10, 2016, 09:40:36 PM »
Anyone know of a market for nipple sleeves? 6mm to 8mm? geez that sounds pornographic.

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Re: Rims from India
« Reply #19 on: March 10, 2016, 10:22:19 PM »
http://www.smprowheels.co.uk/9g-x-300-3-60mm-x-7-60mm-alloy-nipple-set-silver.html

I think this is the smallest OD they come in

Bloody awful website for trying to find stuff on though.
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Re: Rims from India
« Reply #20 on: March 18, 2016, 05:50:30 PM »
just an update  I'm going to hit the button and by the rims from India – but have also been following up with the Indians (ha ha) who sell spokes in kits for all sorts of old British bikes and the Enfield bullets, asked one of them (by way of eBay messaging) if they would do different lengths and he came back saying "just tell us what you want", so a bit more head scratching but I'm going to give them a try

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Re: Rims from India
« Reply #21 on: March 18, 2016, 08:12:22 PM »
Good discussion,  keen to hear how you go with those indians! 

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Re: Rims from India
« Reply #22 on: March 18, 2016, 08:20:21 PM »
So the site with the larger, er, nipples, would mean i could use them on the normal spokes?  So i could buy the normal spoke set (on ebay) and then  use these 8mm nipples so i could run the torpedo7 rims?

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Re: Rims from India
« Reply #23 on: March 18, 2016, 09:01:03 PM »
The SM pro nipples are for 9 or 8G thread spokes. I have no idea if they will suit the spokes you are getting. If they (spokes) are metric threaded they wont. I do not see much new metric spokes these days. The SM pro site lists the OD of the nipples. The spoke holes in rims need to be a little bigger than this.

use this to work out if you have metric or imperial. For example 9G and 3.5mm are not interchangeable. I got caught once when i wanted to fit some aftermarket 9g nipples to some OEM PE or RM spokes but they do not fit.

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Re: Rims from India
« Reply #24 on: March 18, 2016, 09:28:31 PM »
Sorry for the hijack but does anyone know where to buy blank spokes? I have a threader and make my own spokes but have run out of all my London Trading blanks. I should have bought up big, they were about $10 for a hundred, with nipples, and the ones I made years ago are still nice and bright.

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Re: Rims from India
« Reply #25 on: March 18, 2016, 10:31:22 PM »
Thanks LWC, ill see if u can get the specs of the spokes, and work this out

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Re: Rims from India
« Reply #26 on: March 18, 2016, 10:42:21 PM »
Just read this,  i meant if I can get the specs,, Geez what you must think!  Thanks for the info so far.

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Re: Rims from India
« Reply #27 on: March 19, 2016, 12:39:15 AM »
London Trading, gee that was a long time ago!. Their left overs went to Conco and then Conco teamed with McLeods. You could still buy the spokes from McLeods maybe 8-10 years ago. I doubt they have them anymore as they got out of parts like that. I have not bought any for ages. Most people just want stainless these days.
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Re: Rims from India
« Reply #28 on: March 19, 2016, 10:44:57 AM »
Perhaps it is urban myth but I prefer steel spokes over stainless.
Steel spokes seem to have a bit more stretch in them and to my mind  a spoked wheel has to have some flexibility so it is better off with spokes that can give a little
But it may simply be that plain steel spokes with cad plating are easier to work with for an amateur like me  because they have got a wider range of acceptable "tightness", because when you are tightening up a stainless poke it seems to get tight all of a sudden – there is no give or stretch in the  stainless spoke particularly those ones nearly the thickness of a pencil that they seem to want to sell you these days