Hi all-
Erik D S from The Recyclery (Chicago/Evanston) here. We're working on making up some laminated spoke cards for our wheel room this winter... the idea being to have an easy, reusable (dry erase marker) id system for wheels that can tell any major features, defects, etc. so that people don't have to go traipsing back and forth to the wheel room to find something that both fits a fork AND spins.
some ideas i've had are: diameter ideal tire width range (c/o chart by sheldon brown) hub/locknut-locknut width # of cogs (for rear wheels) other notes (things that need tightening, loosening, truing, rounding, overhauling, missing spokes, oddsized axles, rare alloys, whatever)
have any other shops done this? if so, what information have you found relevant to put on the cards? i'd like to keep it simple enough to make a volunteer/work trade task without superfluous options of information--a nice volunteer/work trade task.
Thats all!
thanks,
erik
we stole our tag system from freeride, and i love the idea of spoke cards for wheels. our wheels live at the top of our shop, so we need a hook/conduit to get them down, and it sucks getting one down and realizing it's the wrong size. they are sorted, but the labels aren't kept all that up to date.
anyway, our wheels are so high that marking them might not be a great way to sort them, just due to not being able to read them at a distance.
if we were (and we might) to incorporate a spoke card system like this, i'd make ours color coded, so you could tell at a glance what size the rim is, (front and rear is easy enough by sight...), and then the specific details would go on with dry erase marker.
the colored paper would be good in a wheel room setup, for quick sorting, and finding of the right size/range....
On Jan 14, 2008 3:44 PM, Erik Stockmeier eriks@therecyclery.org wrote:
Erik Stockmeier wrote:
Erik-
I think the system sounds rad! The dry erase option is top shelf. Our shop is just getting up and rolling, but we're big fans of baling wire (that cheapy, twist-tie without the nice paper covering stuff) because, unlike zip ties or whatnot, they're good and reuse-able.
For wheels, we've just sorted things by rim size, and then overhauled hubs and trued them (slowly but surely, one right after another). Then, we tag them with a green tag (green means go, no tag means straight from the dumpster to you- it'll need some work). We're hoping that'll eliminate the need to scrounge around and guess which wheel is a hunk and which is a prize.
I like the extra info you're offering, and it really might be a great exercise for work/traders. Kudos... and we're stealing your idea...
off to the laminator...
Thanks Erik- pete.
in our shop, we hang (trued, overhauled) wheels with tires and tubes already on them, and have rear wheels hanging slightly lower/in a different position than front wheels.
On Jan 14, 2008 9:35 PM, Pete Morsch petemorsch@gmail.com wrote:
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