Is My Spoke Steel or Aluminum? | Tech Tuesday
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- Опубліковано 27 лют 2023
- Which category on a tension chart does your spoke fit into, steel or aluminum? Calvin shows how to determine this by looking at the PROPERTIES OF MATERIAL. Using a few simple tests, you can figure out if your spoke is made of steel or aluminum and find the proper category to tension spokes.
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Calvin, Park Tools greatest spokesperson 👍
Aluminium spokes: a really bad idea. Give them 6 months in a wet/salty environment and the nipples seize onto the spokes, or into the rim. Try to turn them, & you snap the spoke. That's $8-15 right there. Repeat. Just use good quality steel ones.
You know you're no longer a young man when you recognize an _Opinel_ knife and magnetic reading glasses like yours.
You are a well spoked young man
It reminds me of the flat aluminum spokes. But it looks like it will break easily.
Will you be doing a video on telling the difference between aluminum spokes and aluminium spokes at some point?
1:18 Happy Festivus!
My favorite is unobtanium, but I can't seem to find anything made of it.
There are some very strong magnets in discarded electric toothbrush heads. Harvest them when you change heads.
What a good tip.
Haha, aluminium-love it. You’ve been converted.
Gotta get me one of those CSD-1 😂
So which are better?
What about a scratch or sniff test?
spokesperson .. Mr. Calvin off topic could you do a video on bike reflectors removal on spokes ..should you and are they their for counter balance of valve stems more so than for safety i can't get a strait answer from the whole of the internet i think the weight is so small it will not make a difference yet ...? plus they suck to remove and could you show us how to remove the evil plastic sons of B words so as to not mess up our spokes you and your team are great i have learned a lot from you guys keep up the awesome videos
I can't say that i've ever seen a reflector that wasn't removable with a quarter turn of a flat-blade screwdriver, but i might be old
las mejores herramientas para bici del mundo
Hay otras marcas que hacen buenas, a veces mejores, herramientas. Pero, si, son muy buenas.
tengo pro y no es lo mismo me gustaría park pero no da el presupuesto estamos en Argentina y lo importado está retenido
@@ezequielpiacenza3776 Entiendo. Park Tool, como muchos productos comercializados como Norte Americanos, tiene sus fábricas en China. Hay productos Europeos, hechos en Europa, de mejor calidad pero menos publicitados. Ojalá algún día fabriquemos productos de alta calidad para nosotros mismos en LatAm.
Hello Calvin 🚲🚴♀️🚴♂️😁
What are those tiny springs aroun the fork seal?
Those are what they call metal o-rings. The help keep the wipers in contact with the stanchion.
Just use a neodymium magnet. You can disassemble an old hard drive not solid state drive to get one. That one will catch to carbon and stainless steel quite well.
I recomen storing and using the neodimum magnet in a ziplock bag. Any metal shaving will get stuck to the magnet and be a PITA to remove it. The bag makes this waay easier.
@@RodrigoSilvaRocha with adhesive tape you can remove iron shaving, same with glass fiber in skin
ss304 and 316 are not magnetic
A swing magnetic pen would do the job.
But Which is better!?
Clearly....the one you have!
Mines rusted
Try a magnet
Too simple
You missed out Ti spokes 🤣🤣
Yes, and that one is more difficult compared to steel/aluminum.
what, why?
Why not titanium? Both stronger and lighter than steel and some would say more dampening too.
There are Ti spokes available and like many things the reason it is not used more often is because of price.
@@parktool price not considered, are ti spokes of value?
Try to put a reliable thread on a Ti spoke, one that does not create stress risers at the thread root. Pretty hard to.
@@parktool & because they are notorious for snapping off at the thread beginning.
i had to install TI seat post , iron screw in ti nut, instantly seized( not screwed hard)
So carbon steel is stronger than stainless steel?
The properties are pretty much the same. Carbon steel can be harder compared to stainless. Carbon steel tends to have a higher tensile strength. The wheel will not know the difference and it will behave the same.
@@parktool cool thanks a lot
Interesting video, it still drives me nuts when people put an I in aluminum IT IS NOT PRONOUNCED ALUMINIUM!!!!
It's only called _aluminum_ in North American English. Everywhere else it's called _aluminium_ .
Oh yes it is 😂
throwback US peasants with their silly pronunciations and dark ages measurement system.
@@frostsmoke by people of culture & discernment, i.e. not seppoes.