octubre 13, 2009 19 Comentarios
[Nota: este es el número 6 de una serie de 20 consejos que se publicarán durante 2009.]
Para quienes no sepan la manera más rápida de construir una rueda trasera, aquí les explicamos cómo. Este método es una práctica común para muchos, pero aún no ha sido descubierto por la mayoría. Construir de derecha a izquierda aprovecha la incómoda realidad de las ruedas traseras para acelerar el proceso. De hecho, este método permite tensar las traseras más rápido y fácilmente que las delanteras.
Paso 1: Empieza a encordar la rueda como de costumbre. Asegúrate de que cada cabecilla esté suelta, pero apretada a la misma distancia que las del mismo lado. Paso 2: Aprieta las cabecillas del lado de la transmisión (derecha) uniformemente hasta que queden bien ajustadas. Continúa hasta que este lado esté tenso, aproximadamente a 2/3 de la tensión final. Asegúrate de que los radios del lado izquierdo sigan sueltos.
Vaya, puede que digas: "La llanta ya está centrada sobre la brida derecha del buje y no gira a la derecha". Sí, pero no te preocupes, es justo lo que quieres. La llanta se moverá por todas partes, ya que la triangulación aún no funciona. Abre los indicadores del soporte de centrado para poder girar la rueda. Paso 3: mejora la redondez (descentramiento radial) apretando y aflojando SOLO las cabecillas del lado de la transmisión.
Esta sesión de redondez es la más fácil de todas, ya que puedes ignorar por completo el descentramiento lateral. Simplemente aprieta y afloja las cabecillas hasta que la llanta quede perfectamente redonda (no es así). Usa ajustes drásticos, como media vuelta, para que el trabajo sea rápido. Una vez que la llanta esté perfectamente redonda, podemos continuar.
En el paso 4, aprieta los radios del lado opuesto a la transmisión para separar la llanta del cassette, hacia la línea central del buje. Ignora por completo los radios del lado opuesto a la transmisión. A medida que aprietas uniformemente las cabecillas, úsalas para centrar la llanta. Este centrado, usando solo un lado y sin tener en cuenta la redondez, es rapidísimo. El truco está en centrar la llanta (usa un cóncavo para medir) al mismo tiempo que la tensión del lado opuesto a la transmisión alcanza la perfección. El éxito depende de lo apretada que hayas puesto la tensión del lado opuesto a la transmisión en el paso 2. Practica con una combinación específica (llanta, buje, longitud de radio) para que esta parte sea fácil. Con el tiempo, puede ser rapidísimo.
Las ventajas son dobles. Primero, el proceso es más rápido porque se perfecciona la redondez sin tener en cuenta la inclinación lateral: se reduce el número de radios a ajustar y el razonamiento bidimensional es mucho más sencillo. Además, la inclinación lateral se completa sin tener en cuenta la redondez, lo que ofrece la misma ventaja de velocidad. La segunda ventaja es que las cabecillas del lado de la transmisión se aprietan sin necesidad de girarlas. Apretar una cabecilla a la tensión máxima requiere esfuerzo, ya que se evita la fricción entre la rosca y la llanta. Esta estrategia permite apretar las cabecillas del lado opuesto a la transmisión para tensar el lado de la transmisión, y estas cabecillas son el doble de fáciles de girar.
Reconoce el potencial e inténtalo. Si practicas unas cuantas veces, no volverás atrás. Ojalá pudiéramos idear un atajo similar para las ruedas delanteras o las traseras simétricamente cóncavas (como algunas fixie). Las ruedas traseras son estructuras menos resistentes que las delanteras debido a su asimetría. Pero eso no significa que deban tardar más en construirse. ¡Todo lo contrario!
Nota al margen: como las llantas de madera son tan flexibles, este método no funciona tan bien. Sigo usando un estilo de construcción frontal para mis llantas traseras de madera. ¿Y tú?
noviembre 02, 2021
Hi Ric,
Thank you for the article.
I have a question. If at 2/3 tension on DS, and NDS spokes have not been tightened, the wheel is radially true, is there need to tighten the DS spokes before tightening NDS?
I am building my 2nd ever wheel. I initialy built it using the traditional method, and both forms of trueness (side to side, up-down) were acceptable, and rim was correctly dished. However, DS spokes were higher than what the rim manufacturer recommended (1200 N, some DS spokes were 1600N), so I decided to try your method.
noviembre 02, 2021
If you are building motor hub wheels this method is a must for rear wheels no matter what size of the rim you work on
noviembre 02, 2021
I’ve built only 6 sets of wheels and thought i would try your method,I obviously did something wrong, at the end it was so badly out of shape radially I’m going to start again.
Oh well.
noviembre 02, 2021
Ric, thanks for this article. Would this building style be appropriate with a Velocity off-center rim?
noviembre 02, 2021
I’m a newbie wheel builder but this just makes so much sense to me, the one question I have is it ok to de-stress the wheel as I go?
noviembre 02, 2021
Ric,
Just completed the read wheel using the right to left tip, went so smooth thanks for posting this as it built up quicker and easier then the front did.
You site overall is great thanks for the continued posts.
noviembre 02, 2021
I just built my 2nd wheel, which was my first rear wheel using this method.
It was GREAT!
Much quicker and easier than the front I built,
though I did learn from that which helped.
Why can’t this be used for a undished wheel?
Would the spokes need to bring the rim to far over for the loose side to bring it back without excessive tension?
noviembre 02, 2021
Just tried this for the first time. Brilliant!!! Thanks for the tip.
By the way I love your website.
noviembre 02, 2021
I don’t get it. The tip says to evenly tighten the left side spokes AND use them to true the wheel. But if you use the left side spokes to true the wheel, then by definition you aren’t tightening them evenly. And, if you don’t tighten the left side spokes evenly, won’t that affect the roundness?
noviembre 02, 2021
Hello Ric,
Really enjoying your website and style of writing.
Question about when to apply correction of the ‘spoke path’ when using this method. Is it correct to assume do the DS when it’s about 1/2 tight, and when you get around to the NDS, do it at about the same 1/2 final tightness?
Also wondering what is considered ‘loose’ for the NDS side when working roundness out on the DS. My experience once before was a wheel was very wobbly when loose, but became quite far closer to true as it began to get a little snug. Would there be a problem snugging up the NDS to about that point? Or do you truly want them quite loose so they don’t affect roundness (even if the nipples are tightened equally on that side)?
noviembre 02, 2021
Ric: Thanks for this excellent tip. I used it on both the front and rear wheels since both has discs and were asymmetrical. I found it far easier and more effective to use this method, and using a tensiometer, was able to figure out 2/3 of the final tension on drive side so that I hit the target once the non-drive side spokes were tightened. Radial truing in particular was much easier using this method.
noviembre 02, 2021
When radially truing you say the wheel has to be within 1cm of lateral true in order to radial true, which makes sense. I’m assuming you’re using drive side to laterally true in order to get within 1cm. If the wheel is way out of lateral true, couldn’t that give you uneven final ds spoke tension? Also, when snugging up ds spokes, how many turns are you doing on each spoke at a time? I hope these questions make sense with the way they are worded.
Thanks in advance for your help.
noviembre 02, 2021
Question – I’m trying this on a wheel with internal nipples, so it makes it a little hard to see how even the nipples are threaded before before adding tension.
Maybe that’s the problem, but by the time I get to 2/3 of the final tension, it wobbles so bad I can’t measure the roundness easily – any tips?
Stuart
noviembre 02, 2021
Wow! I just tried this on a rear wheel build and I am very impressed with the time savings. While I am not a lighting fast builder, it did cut down the amount of time I usually spend making a wheel round and true.
I was taught to build using the lateral, radial, dish technique making adjustments in each of those areas while approaching the optimum tension. While that did enable me to build solid wheels, using this approach to separate the radial, lateral and dish helped me reach a round and true wheel in a fraction of the time it took me in the past.
One thing that was a little different for me was that I don’t think I got the right side to 2/3 of final tension before checking roundness and moving onto the left side. I think it was a little more like 1/2 tension but it seemed to work out okay in the end since I was able to creep up on final tension as well as move the dish over somewhat in unison….and that was a nice surprise.
Thank you Ric for sharing this wonderful process.
Oh yeah, I also whipped up a little hub stand that you made reference to at last year’s USAC Mechanic’s Clinic and it worked out nicely! Lots of new and exciting things to try on my way to wheel guru-ship.
Regards,
Brian Pound
noviembre 02, 2021
Dear Sir,
I am currently bogged down trying to dish a front disk wheel. I shall try your advise for the rear wheel for my ’cross bike which is the next campaign.
thank you
noviembre 02, 2021
I far prefer this method now. Any time anyone asks how to build a rear wheel, I’m going to teach them this method. Thanks for writing about it!
noviembre 02, 2021
yeah me too. Find this works really well on 26" and deep section road rims where spoke tension can be a little on the high side without compromising the rim. With light weight box section rims, i find that the right side tension must be spot on before you start to bring the rim to the left otherwise you'll end up with either an undertensioned wheel or possibly a taco.
noviembre 02, 2021
Okay, I never knew this, and have started doing it, and it's just positively brilliant. Thanks for sharing this, my wheel builds are not only faster, but the end quality is better now.
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Harry Fox
noviembre 02, 2021
Hi Ric,
Love this tip, it worked brilliantly on an open pro last year.
However, I followed it to the letter with an A719 just now and couldn’t get it dished right, the tensions came up beautifully and well distributed but still about 4mm off perfect dish. Adding tension would have skewed the DS/NDS ratio and overtensioned DS.
Also, the only way I could keep zero tension on the NDS while initially tensioning the DS was by having the NDS nipples backed off a really long way, meaning when it came to tension there wasn’t enough thread engagement on that side.
I guess its all about the %age of target tension you get your DS spokes to when bringing them up?