Wheelbuilding

[armb]

http://www.thebikeman.co.uk finally had my spokes in. In spite of my leaving the rim and hub with them for over a week to be measured and the right spoke size calculated, the spokes are too big.
Not just "have to grind a bit off where it comes through the nipple" big, but "every nipple is fully done up with 5mm of spoke protruding and they still aren't really taut" big.
I am not a happy bunny. If they had said "you'll have to work out what size you want to order", I would have taken it away and fed numbers into assorted online spoke length calculators, but they didn't.
(Sheldon's wheelbuilding page.)

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[armb.livejournal.com]

Decided it's not quite that bad, they will actually do up enough and just take tedious amounts of cutting/grinding/filing. I'll talk to Rick about exchanging the unused rest of boxful which might be used to convert the Tag-a-long to a three speed when we're both back from holidays.
(I also bought a yellow Spokey (from Howes, who don't have a website), which fits these nipples and is better than the think from an old Halfords toolkit I was using (my red Spokey is too small).)