Originally Posted by
3alarmer
....at the risk of sounding stupid, why ? What's the rationale ? I've been cutting out hubs from wheels that no longer work, and rebuilding them for at lest 25 years now, and have never had some sort of damaged hub flange or other misadventure with them in all that time. Am I tempting fate here ? I'm not going to reuse the spokes or rims, and cut at the innermost crosses with a short handled bolt cutter. They seem to work fine afterward.
What am missing ? Feel free to revile me as a hacker. I've been called worse.
It's just that cutting a perfectly good set of stainless spokes in half is a needless (and expensive) waste. I always de-lace, measure, count, then wrap them with gaff tape with the length and quantity on them.
It's saved me a bunch and facilitated the building of a few really nice wheels for cheap.
-Kurt