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advice if you please....
built up a dt 440 hub with 82 mm between flanges (150mm hub). spoke holes are 2.8mm, so i used brass washers with the supercomp spokes.
it wasnt easy to set the spoke heads, i had to use a punch. after building i noticed there is some slight fading/annodizing rub at the bends of the spokes. It built well (stans flow 29er) and is all within 10% of 100kgf with no issues when detensioning.
Should i assume the flanges and the washers forced too much of a bend in the spoke and rebuild? or could the discolouration simply be from the effort it took to get the spoke bend through the washer/flange?
any advice gratefully received.
built up a dt 440 hub with 82 mm between flanges (150mm hub). spoke holes are 2.8mm, so i used brass washers with the supercomp spokes.
it wasnt easy to set the spoke heads, i had to use a punch. after building i noticed there is some slight fading/annodizing rub at the bends of the spokes. It built well (stans flow 29er) and is all within 10% of 100kgf with no issues when detensioning.
Should i assume the flanges and the washers forced too much of a bend in the spoke and rebuild? or could the discolouration simply be from the effort it took to get the spoke bend through the washer/flange?

any advice gratefully received.