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« on: 29 May, 2022, 23:13:34 »
i had exactly the same issue as the original post with a bsa a7 7 " single sided rim. spent ages on build. tried reversing the rim with little change and one set of spokes were too long and another slightly too short. i should have sent the whole thing back but i was desperate to get the bike on the road and settled for a bodge job. i was copying the same bsa spoke pattern and i found a post on another forum that had the same issue as me . it seems the rim producer i bought from does not necessarily use the standard rim spoke pattern but can have their own version. my fault for not consulting the manufacturer but a lot wiser to the pitfalls .
on the subject of wheel building , about 30 years ago i went to vic nunns in surbiton [ wheelbuilder ] to buy some replacement broken spokes on my trident and what the friendly old boy did was match the spoke size and length and then hand tap the curl on the end of the spoke on his old blacksmiths vise. it took him seconds to bend each spoke perfectly.