I am in the taking apart/cleaning/truing my five 19" wheels and I have just noticed that the positioning of the long spokes of one of the five wheels is different than that of the other four. If you could picture looking at a rim on the ground in front of you and look at a pair of long spokes in the 6 O'Clock position (under the hub). For four of the rims the one of each pair that crosses over the other sweeps to the right and then connects to the rim( conversly, of course, the one below sweeps to the left). For my last wheel the spoke on top of the sweeps to the left and the bottom sweeps to the right. The spokes of the other four are of the same diameter from the hub out to the rim. The spokes on this "deviant" are slightly thicker at the inch or so closest to the hub. Other than that the wheels are all the same. The inner spokes on all five wheel all "go in the same direction."
I think if I remove all the spokes and move turn the hub a few degrees I can make both the outer longer spokes as well as the inner shorter spokes appear the same as my other four wheels.
Is this wheel really a deviant..put together wrong by someone in the past? ..Or are some of the wheels produced done this way? I do not think it is a critical issue..I would prefer not to take the whole wheel apart to conform to the others..yet..if I don't do it I may have nightmares!
Thanks,
Rob Greaves