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If they are the same spoke length as the dodgy rear spokes, I would. If a different length, how lucky do you feel?
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My partner has a Hunt Supadura dynamo wheelset that is on its third warrantee rear rim (cracks). The first two rims were built by them.
Most of our bikes have dynohubs and you could build them with deep rims but check spoke count. Most dynos have lots. Maybe cross one or two. Radial spoking theoretically isn’t a good choice.
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Bin all the spokes. They are dodgy metal. It could be a range of things (e.g. stress corrosion cracking, originating from inclusions) but it doesn't really matter. Those spokes can’t be trusted.
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The 700x40C Almotions were excellent on my partner’s Tripster.
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My expectation is that on the track, it would possibly have been raced on 700C tubs and used 590 wired-ons on the road. Tubs were available in all sorts of sizes for a while e.g. Constrictor
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~pattle/ddgcs/tyres2.htm
Some tubulars are still available in a range of rim sizes e.g. Vittoria Juniores
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If it was 26” on the road, it was probably 597 or possibly 590, rather than 584. That would have given sufficient mudguard clearance on the road and close clearances on the track with tubs. In 1946, tubs had a fairly big carcass. Think Vittoria Pave tubs.
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It is possible that the original road wheels were a smaller diameter e.g. 26” while the track wheels were 700C tubs.
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A small difference but most folk would not be able to tell the difference. A change of tyre should make a similar difference.
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Brompton used an oversized tubular steel stay to mount a bottle dynamo. I don’t know of anybody else regularly using a stay to mount a dynamo.
I attended a Pedal Club lunch as a guest of the much-missed Rocco Richardson some years ago. The setup sounds like it might be a bit stuffy but it was actually good fun with interesting attendees and speakers.