[Jm_]

I said in the other thread that I had just recently broken a spoke.

I said that I liked the way the DT spokes taper better than the wheelsmith taper which is a greater change over a smaller area;

I thought i had laced my wheel up with all DT spokes, but I must have gotten a wheelsmith in there somehow because the one I broke was a DB wheelsmith, I must not have realized it when I laced it.

So the wheelsmith one(the one that was differnet) broke...wierd eh?

 

[buildyourown]

Maybe it couldn't take the pressure of being different. So it gave up the ghost.

While I agree with engineering logic that the longer butt length makes for a stronger spoke, I have had no durability issues with all of my wheelsmith built wheels.

 

[binary visions]

longer butt

Heh. Heh heh heh heh hehehehehehehe..

 

[Jm_]

Maybe it couldn't take the pressure of being different. So it gave up the ghost.

While I agree with engineering logic that the longer butt length makes for a stronger spoke, I have had no durability issues with all of my wheelsmith built wheels.

i'd agree, it's just odd that the one "different" spoke broke, not saying that a wheel built with wheelsmiths would necessarily be measurably weaker, but i wonder if a spoke that has a different elasticity OR strength than the others creates a weak spot, or at least a spot that would see more fatique and stress?

 

[SuspectDevice]

I don't like wheelsmith spokes, and have never had any luck with them, but it seems unlikely that the spoke failed because it was a Wheelsmith, Unless it failed at the the elbow... I think wheelsmiths tend to be slightly undersized at the elbow

 

[Sideways]

Wheelsmith spokes are total pieces of ****.
Cut threads, crap butts....just pointless to waste ones time building wheels with such junk.
DT's on the other hand are a work of art.

 

[buildyourown]

Wheelsmith spokes are total pieces of ****.
Cut threads, crap butts....just pointless to waste ones time building wheels with such junk.
DT's on the other hand are a work of art.

Wheelsmith spokes do NOT have cut threads. Don't talk about stuff you don't know.

 

[Smelly]

i don't like wheelsmith nipples. the flats are a lot smaller than DT's.

 

[CreeP]

we've got some bladed WS at the shop, i'm going to take a closer look at the nipples, elbows and threads tomorrow.

the dt butt is definately stronger but the butted dt's we've got are a 14 whereas the bladed ws are 15 so it could just be that that makes em look so much stronger. And we don't have to worry about cut threads anyway since we've got a phil wood machine which rolls them on.