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Cutting Spokes
What's the right procedure and tool for cutting spokes? Any safety advise? I'm planning to send hubs back to Chris King before giving them to my wheel builder.
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standard cheap home center pliers works for me. But usually I unwind the nipples and save everything
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The sudden tension release when a spoke is cut may cause the end with the nipple to shoot out of the rim. So don't remove the rim tape until after the spokes are cut to prevent them from shooting out, and make sure the nipple end of the spoke isn't pointed toward your face (or any other sensitive areas) when you cut each spoke.
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Loosen spokes a couple of full turns then cut
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De-tension the wheel before you cut spokes. Even better, disassemble the wheel completely. I've seen hub flanges crack when someone starting cutting spokes on a tensioned wheel.
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DEtension spokes then use a good cutter..really easy but DEtension first.
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I suspect that there were cranks in the flanges already, and the change in flange forces when spokes were cut was just "the straw that broke the camel's back." Just like as with spokes, flanges break from fatigue, which is from the initiation and growth of cracks, the cracks growing minutely with every load cycle, until finally one more load cycling is too much and the crack separates.
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