Originally Posted by
Piff
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I seem to remember reading about Sheldon only using half of the spoke holes on a hub for a rim before, like a 36h hub and 18h rims perhaps...though I cannot recall where on his website.
That does make me wonder what could be done.
Perhaps you can just ignore 4 holes in each of the rear flanges? i.e. ignore one hole at the 12:00 position, one at the 3:00 position, 6:00, and 9:00.
It'll throw off the spoke lengths slightly. Might have to spend a little time with the equation for spoke length to be sure of how much.
In the worst case scenario.. such as 4x, I think it would add (or subtract) half of the distance between spoke holes. That would be for the spokes next to the empty holes. The difference would be less as you moved away from the empty spokes.
If you could get by with one spoke length, where some are slightly long and some are slightly short, then this might be practical.
Steve in Peoria