Help how easy is it to build a wheel??

[FluffyChicken]

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If you do measure them, you'll need to go from the centre of the bend on the spoke head to the very end of the thread....

Inside edge to very end is the normal way to measure afaik.
(though both ways will be within tolerance)


Oh and one of your Grime Time's you're scanning is to do with this I think
Grime Time: Rim Swap – MBUK November 1995


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Measure spokes? well if the rim diameter is the same then it will be lacing to the same point so no.
But you may as well double check and measure them.

Should be
266mm length (assuming FD-M737 32hole to Mavic 220 rim)
according to SpoCalc


According to spocalc,
Mavic XM317 needs the same length.

 

[drystonepaul]

Inside edge to very end is the normal way to measure afaik.
(though both ways will be within tolerance)

Yeah there's less than a millimetre in it...

I've scanned and uploaded the Rim Swapping article and it's now available in this thread:
http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=53227

There are a couple of other articles about wheel trueing too.