The Modern bicycle and its accessories; a complete reference book for rider, dealer, and maker (1898)
Schwalbach, Alexander, Wilcox, Julius, Commercial advertiser association, New York · New York, The Commercial advertiser association · leaf 91
this practice consisted inits tendency to crystallization where theupset ended. Swaging a spoke con-sists in leaving the butt ends of the spokethe original thickness of the wire, and re-ducing the diameter between the ends bya hammering process in a machine builtfor the purpose, to a gauge or two… … PLYMOUTH RIM JOINT. method the wires are at first made some-what shorter than the length required, asthe swaging has a tendency to draw themout in length, and in the best of modernpractice of spoke making the threads arerolled on by machinery instead of havingthem cut on by a die, as formerly.…
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