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Unread 11-12-2009, 00:03
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Re: pic: 6 spoke wheel

Looks great! Couple suggestions I have:

What is the radius in the fillet between the spoke and rim? A lot of times machinists won't like to go any smaller than a 3/8" tool when making something like this, so you might want to make sure that radius is about 0.2 or so.

Also, it looks strong enough, but it can can lose a lot of weight in the hub region. I'd remove a lot of that material between the bolt holes.
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