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Today's Topics:
1. Spoke storage solutions? (Jonathan Rosenbaum)
2. Re: Spoke storage solutions? (momoko saunders)
3. Re: Spoke storage solutions? (Ainsley Naylor)
4. Re: Spoke storage solutions? (The Wrench)
5. Community bike shop in Orlando? (Kim Schaffer)
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From: Jonathan Rosenbaum <gnuser@gmail.com>
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Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2019 02:29:40 -0400
Subject: [TheThinkTank] Spoke storage solutions?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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From: momoko saunders <analyst@bikefarm.org>
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Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2019 06:48:39 -0700
Subject: Re: [TheThinkTank] Spoke storage solutions?I don't know that this is the best spoke storage. But it's better than rubber banding them together and sticking them in a coffee can.See picture attachedWe use old PVC pipe and cut out about 20 lengths, maybe 9". Then labeled them for every even spoke length, then used screws to stack them all together.We should have created more than one pipe for common lengths and grouped some of the scarcer lengths together.-MomokoOn Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 11:29 PM 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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Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2019 09:52:20 -0400
Subject: Re: [TheThinkTank] Spoke storage solutions?At Bike Pirates we have a series of PVC tubes for spokes but they are stored vertically (fixed to a board) at the back of our wheel station.
Spokes are sorted in 5mm increments (260-264, 265-269 etc.) for ease of locating the appropriate length.
Unfortunately we also have about 10,000 more unsorted spokes in boxes and bins UNDER our wheel station that may never get sorted ;PAinsley (Toronto)On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 9:49 AM momoko saunders <analyst@bikefarm.org> wrote:I don't know that this is the best spoke storage. But it's better than rubber banding them together and sticking them in a coffee can.See picture attachedWe use old PVC pipe and cut out about 20 lengths, maybe 9". Then labeled them for every even spoke length, then used screws to stack them all together.We should have created more than one pipe for common lengths and grouped some of the scarcer lengths together.-Momoko____________________________________On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 11:29 PM 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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Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2019 10:58:37 -0500
Subject: Re: [TheThinkTank] Spoke storage solutions?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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Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2019 15:23:23 -0400
Subject: [TheThinkTank] Community bike shop in Orlando?_______________________________________________Hi all,
We have a friend of our program who just moved to Orlando, FL, and asked if we knew of any Earn a Bike or community bike shops in the Orlando area. I didn’t find any on a quick Google search…anyone have any leads?
Thanks for any info I can pass along!
Kim
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