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Old 06-16-22, 07:45 PM
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I gave up on trying to pay attention to the charts and numbers on my ChiCom tension meter. The reason is that I have no way of calibrating it reliably. My solution to this was to just pay attention to the numbers on the meter for what ever they indicate. I went around to my wheel sets and measured the tension on front and rear wheels. Surprisingly they were very close and in my newer well trued wheels there was little variance between the spokes for each side. Not so with some of my trued but beaten up wheel sets. I expected as much as they are survivors and at least round. For what its worth I'll post my findings but remember I am using a cheap ChiCom uncalibrated spoke tension meter. Your meter might have numbers entirely different. So what I am paying attention to is really finding that oddball spoke that is just to loose or too tight.
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700c M13II 700c 622 14ga
Front: 32-34 Average = 33
Rear Drive Side: 32-33 Average = 31
Rear Nondrive Side: 28-30 Average = 29
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Rm19 Weinmann 27-1/4 x 28c / 35c ETRTO 630X19 14ga
Front = 31
Rear Drive = 30
Rear Nondrive = 25
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CR18 27-1/4 14ga SUNRIMS 14ga
Front = 31-32
Rear Drive = 31
Rear Nodrive = 27
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