can you lace a 32 hole hub, to a 26 hole rim? and if so can you please point me in the right direction?

Hello, Can disc brake be used with 16 spokes?

I usually thread about 12-13mm on every spoke I use (they usually have about 9mm) to avoid any issues of this kind. I also bend the ends a bit to prevent stressing the spoke at the base of the nipple

всех благ вам уважаемый! долгих лет!🙏

As a bicycle mechanic, i like this kind of video.

Wow I truly enjoyed this video!!! Thank you very much!!

Thank you so much. I was looking for a video to share with a teen.

Very interesting. Sadly looks many spoke length calculators tend to be on the shorter side.

Thank you for making people aware of this grave danger.

I don’t drink. I just rid my allergy medicine of that pesky OH group 😂

Hi i have 288mm pillar spokes on a 28 hole hub ( arc 009 ) and with a 12mm nipples the spoke goes all the way inside and left like 1mm out of the nipple. Its okay to have a large nipple? 18mm for example?

Than you!

@Bill Mould What abt 16spokes with a 32h hub AND rim?

I'm looking to do a 26x4 bicycle rim with 258mil 8guage spokes any suggestions. Any help would be appreciated. Can you build me one?? How much.

I just started maintaining/building wheels and appreciated the detail in this video. Ill have to dig in to your materials more. Thanks!

I am literally dying from this right now.. it does not feel good.. how do i get rid of this feeling?

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Really nice method. Just built a wheel this way for a 24" kids bike. Thanks for sharing!

Can the tips be ground down if too long? Your videos are great!!

Да у меня спица лопнула прямо в конце резьбы. Отверстия были прямыми, а не шахматными. При 3 крестах спицы выходили под углом. В следующий раз буду брать более длинные

Wow! Thank you for putting so much effort into this!! 👋👋👋

Thank you Bill - tight and informative!

thank you for the information, I've been building wheels for about 10 yrs as a hobby and by nomeans as a proffesional. I mostly build cruiser and vintage bmx wheels so they are not as technical as race wheels. I am always looking tips and tech info, as they say " you can never stop learning!" my couriosity was boring out the nipple ... I haven't yet!!

Love your work ❤ fudge on the long side. How about double square or squorx?

Just wanted to say, thank you for using metric. It's so refreshing hearing small measurements expressed in decimal millimeters vs thousands of an inch, gawd, how is the imperial system still around... anyway, thank you.

Great. Pro expert advice, good diagrams, easy to follow, to the point, none of this blah blah blah filler of many other youtube vids. Thank you.

I have the opposite problem, a 16h hub (Shimano C24 DuraAce front), and in the absence of after market alloy rims that are available in 16h drilling, am contemplating lacing to a 32h rim (with something like expanding glue, to fill the vacant rim hole to avoid water / dirt ingress). I assume nothing to solve here, other than to understand if there's any reason that's not structurally safe?

Nice presentation. Aluminum rims and problem is solved.

Great work!!

Great video , thank you for the explanation 👍

Excellent video. Thank you so much!!🥰

Awesome. Thank you for sharing.

Interesting that they take a spoke and just roll it, which increases the major dia when material is displaced, compared to the bolt you first pictured which is also rolled as indicative of the step down where the shank meets the thread. This is to get the crest of the thread to be in tolerance with the shank, and in that process they actually turn the bolt "undersized", so that the roll formers displace it back to the correct major. I'm not sure why the minor Dia matters though, the thread rollers are industry standard, and the minor is a product of the forming process. Putting calipers on the major will give you the nominal diameter, and measuring the TPI will give you all the info you need. Probably all class 2 threads at that. I've thread formed bolts up to 5/8", and cut bolts up to 4-4UNC3A. Forming is cool, but you gotta really know your materials as you only get one chance to get it right.

I didm't know about the extra bore....goddamn it! Thanks!! And bless spoke rollers!

Great applied science here! thanks for that. btw, is the 120kg of force the standard tension for a spoke? thanks

20x40

How do you do all this cool stuff

Great video, congrats

The bigger the e.r.d.,the spokes will remain the same as the original,that was built at the factory.

Great informative video!! Thank you for this! I always use washers, when the rim bed is flat I use MG washers of stainless steel, in the other case DT Swiss PHR or the Sapim HM. Today I saw the first time of major galvanic nipple corrosion although I use only quality Sapim spoke nipples. I always use lube on the nipple outside also going into contact with the carbon. I always finish with Loctite on the top and bottom of the spoke nipple. I think indeed water can accelerate corrosion. I saw some suggestion to always blow the nipple area dry after cleaning and use oil around the nipple area. Brass nipples can help, but is limited to Black and Silver. Building 1200gram wheels limits the use of Brass. Is there anyone having good results with duralac, lanocote, or tefgel? Which one has the most lubrication effect and is not aggressive to carbon or decals? Thanks for your FB!

Great Info! Several Nipples broke recently on the head of my elite carbon gravel wheels! Now I know the spokes were too short factory wise!

Very interesting, I'm here today because my MTB disc rims from 2002 just started developing cracks. I'll take this information into consideration when I rebuild them with new rims.

What's the matter with a car wheel? Why a bicycle wheel?

An accurate measure of how much the rim shrinks as the total spoke tension increases with spoke count and tension would be interesting. Also a wheel built with even spoke tension is rarely true mainly because the join in the rim is never perfect. The addition of lateral loads on rear wheels would give some really interesting data. Great to see good data and analysis.

Makes me glad I was wise enough to keep all my steel rims. Aluminum and carbon fiber just can't handle the stress of riding. Especially where there are a bunch of bumps in the road.

Great job Bill! I really appreciate your diagrams and explanations. Makes me wonder why big oil won't supply us a better fuel than gasoline, which has remained unchanged since 1868. But where can we possibly get extra nitrogen and oxygen to formulate with lowely octane? Have to breathe on that for a moment.

That wheel looks just awesome on car!

I've mastered the art of spoking a wheel, as well as overhauling an engine, both gasoline and Diesel. Never got the recognition I deserve as a good mechanic. Oh, well! Lol.

Apart from crunching the nipple thread, are there other negatives from having the spoke protrude too much above the nipple head, like the picture at 7:20? I had a rear wheel built and the drive side spokes protrude about 3 mm from the top of the nipple head.

whats the application of longer nipples if they dont have threads?