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Shoutout to the old timer who still uses a spoke wrench to true wheels
I was at the shop in Tacoma last month and this guy, must have been 70, was using a basic spoke wrench on a carbon rim. He said 'I trust my hands more than a dial gauge.' It made me think about how we all rely on digital tools now. Does anyone else still do certain jobs by feel instead of with a meter?
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piperwhite23d ago
Remember the bubble level can lie if the tool itself is bent or off, like @spencerm46 said... but a dial gauge on a trueing stand doesn't have that problem, it just reads what's there. The old timer's hands are feeling for the same thing the gauge is measuring, so it's not really one or the other. His hands are just the sensor, and years of practice is the computer. That's the part we're really losing, the time it takes to learn that feel.
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hollyg5924d ago
That line about trusting your hands is dead on. I set posts by feel for a plumb line, the bubble in a level can lie if the tool's off. Sometimes the old way just works.
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