On Mon July 5 2004 10:00 am, Bill Browning wrote:
> Yesterday I had about 15 spokes to spontaneously (while I was driving)
> break on a 72 spoke wire wheel
>
> What could have caused this, wheel not on tight enough?, old wire wheel?
Did they break at the bend? Fretting corrosion and/or fatigue, maybe. Spokes
have a finite life, which is shortened considerably if they're driven loose
(the spokes, not the wheel) for any length of time.
--
John Miller
I have had my television aerials removed. It's the moral equivalent
of a prostate operation.
-Malcolm Muggeridge
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