rebuilding wood wheels

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vern0n

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Is there a tutorial on putting back together wood wheels? I picked up a rim with spokes, but no hub. I bought a hub someplace else. The spokes are really fighting me to lay flat. Even if I get them flat, the hole in the center is not round. I think the spokes where taken out and put back in a different order as they don't line up in the center. Wheel is the 21".
 
A couple of years ago, somebody on here posted a picture of a home-built press looking thing for doing what you need. Hopefully it can be reposted, as I am doing new spokes soon, and could use the lesson.
 
Check out my Winter build T project #70 on shows how I made a few changers
on the press. That worked out a lot better. One thing you have to do is twist each spoke. Until you have them all on the same plane. Lang had a press and I made mine the same as his. Unless the spokes are new DO NOT USE THEM!
Buy new ones!
 
I live twenty minutes from Don. And he had made a press like yours. But with a few changers. I used has press a few years back. And liked the way it worked. So I made the changers on mine. Changers can be seen on My winter build project T body #79
 
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