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Originally Posted by Nessism
Tension meters like the Park has an app which allows you to translate the gauges tension numbers into actual spoke tension values in kgf. Targeting 110 for DS rear is about right. For the front you generally don't need to go quite that high.
The table itself isn't exactly hard to find, either.

https://www.parktool.com/assets/doc/...conv-table.pdf

I like to use strips of painter's tape to cover up the neighboring spoke gauges of the wheel I'm working on. That helps avoid mistakes when going back and forth between the wheel and the chart.
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