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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