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From: Cyclista Nicholas <cyclista@inventati.org>
Date: 4/18/19 5:13 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: The Think Tank <thethinktank@lists.bikecollectives.org>
Cc: The Wrench <info@thewrench.ca>
Subject: Re: [TheThinkTank] Spoke storage solutions?

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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