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
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 attached
We 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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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 ;P
Ainsley (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 attached
We 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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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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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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I have heard of people using paint brush displays from art stores! Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone -------- Original message --------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 NicholasOn 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>> ____________________________________>> >> The ThinkTank mailing List>> >> Unsubscribe from this list here:>> http://lists.bikecollectives.org/options.cgi/thethinktank-bikecollectives.or... >> > > ____________________________________> > The ThinkTank mailing List> > Unsubscribe from this list here:> http://lists.bikecollectives.org/options.cgi/thethinktank-bikecollectives.or... ThinkTank mailing ListUnsubscribe from this list here: http://lists.bikecollectives.org/options.cgi/thethinktank-bikecollectives.or...
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