Spoke Tension Tools: How to Use Them to True a Bike Wheel

In this video I will show you how I use my custom-built spoke tension meter calibration tool to create spoke tension charts. While a variety of tension meter tools are available on the market today, they are useless unless you have a way of converting the amount of spoke deflection, which is what the tool measures, to the amount of tension being applied to the spoke, which is typically measured in kgF. And since the KgF measure is determined by BOTH the spoke tension meter brand/model AND the specific brand/model of spoke being used, there is almost an infinite number of tension charts that could be produced for all the tension meter / spoke combinations possible. So, unless you have a way of creating a spoke tension chart yourself for your specific spoke and spoke tension meter combo, it’s unlikely you’ll be able to use a spoke tension meter to determine the actual force being applied to the spokes.

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Timestamps:
00:00 Outtake
00:52 Intro
01:25 Do You Need to Use a Spoke Tension Calibration Tool?
05:11 How I Built My Spoke Tension Calibration Tool
06:53 How to Use the Tool

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