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I squeeze pairs of spokes but I end up having to use a something dandruff uses with round spokes. With aero spokes I dont as the blade edge might be damaged and also the aero spokes seem respond better to hand squeezing than round spokes do. I always stress until the wheel no longer fo out of true. The final test is to push the rim with the wheel resting on the end cap. If it out of true then back to work.
I get more than a little tension drop too. After retensioning and stressing again I get a further tension drop.
In years of doing this I have never stressed once and it's enough. It probably is but if I can stress a wheel and it goes out that's unacceptable to me and back in the jig it goes.
One odd thing with a front wheel built with lasers stressing can put a dished wheel out of dish. Odd I know. It happened again today. I think I'm a bit OCD with the stressing.
Stressing also rarely make the wheel.more u round. It can do the opposite. Its lateral rudeness that often affected.
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What are people’s process for completely stress relieving their wheels? currently squeezing parallel pairs of spokes after every round of tensioning -but feels like I’m doing something wrong as it doesn’t seem that effective... Maybe I’m not squeezing hard enough?