We lucked out a long time ago and got a whole lot of Wheelsmith cardboard spoke boxes that we stack on a shelf in the parts room and label by length. It basically is a cardboard version of the spoke motel. They've held up surprisingly well over a lot of years, possibly because we don't access them all that often. These are boxes that bulk quantities of spokes would come in.
I'd imagine spoke companies might be willing to donate several dozen boxes, or possibly they could be purchased relatively cheaply.
cyclista Nicholas
On 2019-04-09 15:58, The Wrench wrote:
At the WRENCH (Winnipeg), we have thousands of spokes too. We keep most in sturdy closed drawers. These are usually bundled in groups big enough to build a wheel (or half) and sorted by size group eg: 250s, 260s, etc.
Loose spokes and small groups we've had in a tabletop spoke sorter but that didn't go well. Right now, they gather in a coffee can until they get sorted into a tool roll wrap, which is our new solution.
I'm figuring that the spokes in the tool roll will have a better chance to stay sorted. That should be the first place to go for replacing a spoke, while the bundles in drawers will be best for wheel building.
On Tue, Apr 9, 2019, 1:29 AM Jonathan Rosenbaum, gnuser@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Thinkers @ the Tank,
At Positive Spin we have collected thousands of spokes that are finally being organizing by size. The next step will be finding a way to store them all for easy access by size, which will translate into significant time savings. Apart from the spoke motel solution at https://www.bikecollectives.org/wiki/index.php?title=Part_Storage#Spokes , what other solutions are your shops utilizing?
Thank-you so much, ahead of time,
-Jonathan ____________________________________
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