Dear RD400guy,
Here's part of a private email from a materials engineer
about your explanation that I thought you might like to see.
Thanks again,
Carl Fogel
>Carl,
>
>To me, the pertinent bit is:
>
>"It is dislocations in metal crystals that are the
>'stress.' Cold forming, work...
Dear RD400guy,
I'm delighted--this is the first time that I've seen something that might explain things.
If I follow you, some of the confusion might arise from your distinction between real stress relief versus what you see as a plastic deformation that would sorta-kinda achieve the same...
Dear GRoberts and Knobhead,
I appreciate the time and trouble that you both took to wade through my question. If I follow you, you both think that the spoke-squeezing serves to release mechanical torison from twisting the spoke nipples by allowing them to rotate slightly.
Such "pinging" is...
Hello,
Here's a stainless-steel stress-relief question.
Briefly, can stainless-steel bicycle spokes be usefully stress-relieved by grabbing a pair of spokes already tensioned to 200-400 pounds in a wheel and squeezing them together with your hands?
This procedure is one of the sacred beliefs...
