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  • Which category on a tension chart does your spoke fit into, steel or aluminum? Calvin shows how to determine this by looking at the PROPERTIES OF MATERIAL. Using a few simple tests, you can figure out if your spoke is made of steel or aluminum and find the proper category to tension spokes.
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  • @JibbaJabber
    @JibbaJabber ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Calvin, Park Tools greatest spokesperson 👍

  • @zygmuntthecacaokakistocrat6589
    @zygmuntthecacaokakistocrat6589 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Aluminium spokes: a really bad idea. Give them 6 months in a wet/salty environment and the nipples seize onto the spokes, or into the rim. Try to turn them, & you snap the spoke. That's $8-15 right there. Repeat. Just use good quality steel ones.

  • @sylvainmichaud2262
    @sylvainmichaud2262 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    You know you're no longer a young man when you recognize an _Opinel_ knife and magnetic reading glasses like yours.

  • @chriswatson2407
    @chriswatson2407 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You are a well spoked young man

  • @Jalfred92
    @Jalfred92 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Will you be doing a video on telling the difference between aluminum spokes and aluminium spokes at some point?

  • @Mobilant_US
    @Mobilant_US ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It reminds me of the flat aluminum spokes. But it looks like it will break easily.

  • @ploegdbq
    @ploegdbq ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My favorite is unobtanium, but I can't seem to find anything made of it.

  • @freds4703
    @freds4703 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    There are some very strong magnets in discarded electric toothbrush heads. Harvest them when you change heads.

    • @parktool
      @parktool  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What a good tip.

  • @ArmandGirard
    @ArmandGirard ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Gotta get me one of those CSD-1 😂

  • @ploegdbq
    @ploegdbq ปีที่แล้ว +1

    1:18 Happy Festivus!

  • @ezequielpiacenza3776
    @ezequielpiacenza3776 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    las mejores herramientas para bici del mundo

    • @KarlosEPM
      @KarlosEPM ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hay otras marcas que hacen buenas, a veces mejores, herramientas. Pero, si, son muy buenas.

    • @ezequielpiacenza3776
      @ezequielpiacenza3776 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      tengo pro y no es lo mismo me gustaría park pero no da el presupuesto estamos en Argentina y lo importado está retenido

    • @KarlosEPM
      @KarlosEPM ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ezequielpiacenza3776 Entiendo. Park Tool, como muchos productos comercializados como Norte Americanos, tiene sus fábricas en China. Hay productos Europeos, hechos en Europa, de mejor calidad pero menos publicitados. Ojalá algún día fabriquemos productos de alta calidad para nosotros mismos en LatAm.

  • @aarontiffany9101
    @aarontiffany9101 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    spokesperson .. Mr. Calvin off topic could you do a video on bike reflectors removal on spokes ..should you and are they their for counter balance of valve stems more so than for safety i can't get a strait answer from the whole of the internet i think the weight is so small it will not make a difference yet ...? plus they suck to remove and could you show us how to remove the evil plastic sons of B words so as to not mess up our spokes you and your team are great i have learned a lot from you guys keep up the awesome videos

    • @keeganwebber
      @keeganwebber ปีที่แล้ว

      I can't say that i've ever seen a reflector that wasn't removable with a quarter turn of a flat-blade screwdriver, but i might be old

  • @nascar427
    @nascar427 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What about a scratch or sniff test?

  • @ronmel
    @ronmel ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Haha, aluminium-love it. You’ve been converted.

  • @simonpowell2559
    @simonpowell2559 ปีที่แล้ว

    So which are better?

  • @ueberraschungstuete
    @ueberraschungstuete ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Just use a neodymium magnet. You can disassemble an old hard drive not solid state drive to get one. That one will catch to carbon and stainless steel quite well.

    • @RodrigoSilvaRocha
      @RodrigoSilvaRocha ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I recomen storing and using the neodimum magnet in a ziplock bag. Any metal shaving will get stuck to the magnet and be a PITA to remove it. The bag makes this waay easier.

    • @makantahi3731
      @makantahi3731 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@RodrigoSilvaRocha with adhesive tape you can remove iron shaving, same with glass fiber in skin

    • @makantahi3731
      @makantahi3731 ปีที่แล้ว

      ss304 and 316 are not magnetic

  • @arniejed6511
    @arniejed6511 ปีที่แล้ว

    What are those tiny springs aroun the fork seal?

    • @parktool
      @parktool  ปีที่แล้ว

      Those are what they call metal o-rings. The help keep the wipers in contact with the stanchion.

  • @paisfr
    @paisfr ปีที่แล้ว

    Hello Calvin 🚲🚴‍♀️🚴‍♂️😁

  • @a.digdigan7289
    @a.digdigan7289 ปีที่แล้ว

    A swing magnetic pen would do the job.

  • @ApocaIypse666
    @ApocaIypse666 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So carbon steel is stronger than stainless steel?

    • @parktool
      @parktool  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The properties are pretty much the same. Carbon steel can be harder compared to stainless. Carbon steel tends to have a higher tensile strength. The wheel will not know the difference and it will behave the same.

    • @ApocaIypse666
      @ApocaIypse666 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@parktool cool thanks a lot

  • @Mohammad.Adel.
    @Mohammad.Adel. ปีที่แล้ว

    But Which is better!?

    • @parktool
      @parktool  ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Clearly....the one you have!

  • @nascar427
    @nascar427 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Try a magnet

  • @mudkayak6305
    @mudkayak6305 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why not titanium? Both stronger and lighter than steel and some would say more dampening too.

    • @parktool
      @parktool  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      There are Ti spokes available and like many things the reason it is not used more often is because of price.

    • @mudkayak6305
      @mudkayak6305 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@parktool price not considered, are ti spokes of value?

    • @zygmuntthecacaokakistocrat6589
      @zygmuntthecacaokakistocrat6589 ปีที่แล้ว

      Try to put a reliable thread on a Ti spoke, one that does not create stress risers at the thread root. Pretty hard to.

    • @zygmuntthecacaokakistocrat6589
      @zygmuntthecacaokakistocrat6589 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@parktool & because they are notorious for snapping off at the thread beginning.

    • @makantahi3731
      @makantahi3731 ปีที่แล้ว

      i had to install TI seat post , iron screw in ti nut, instantly seized( not screwed hard)

  • @nigelsmith7366
    @nigelsmith7366 ปีที่แล้ว

    You missed out Ti spokes 🤣🤣

    • @parktool
      @parktool  ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, and that one is more difficult compared to steel/aluminum.

  • @makantahi3731
    @makantahi3731 ปีที่แล้ว

    what, why?

  • @MeMelon4u
    @MeMelon4u ปีที่แล้ว

    Mines rusted

  • @dougbrown7150
    @dougbrown7150 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Interesting video, it still drives me nuts when people put an I in aluminum IT IS NOT PRONOUNCED ALUMINIUM!!!!

    • @frostsmoke
      @frostsmoke ปีที่แล้ว +8

      It's only called _aluminum_ in North American English. Everywhere else it's called _aluminium_ .

    • @AndrewDemack
      @AndrewDemack ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Oh yes it is 😂

    • @zygmuntthecacaokakistocrat6589
      @zygmuntthecacaokakistocrat6589 ปีที่แล้ว

      throwback US peasants with their silly pronunciations and dark ages measurement system.

    • @zygmuntthecacaokakistocrat6589
      @zygmuntthecacaokakistocrat6589 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@frostsmoke by people of culture & discernment, i.e. not seppoes.