First attempt at wheel building.....help as I go.

[EDBANGER]

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn, that sounds long.  Too late on the anti seize compound and I'm damned if I'm taking them all off to add it 

I've got to a point now where some of the spokes were tight and some still had some slack.  I've just tightened the slack ones and now the wheel is totally straight.

Of course I'm lying about that last bit.  It wobbles like the bottom lip of an infant that's just witnessed the beheading of it's favourite cuddley toy.  I'm gonna wait until I have my truing tool now and hope that it will all magically become apparent and easy.

[snoopy72]

Un screw each nipple one at a time with a drill driver and add a bit of anti seize or it may make the treads grab especially if you have to adjust it a hundred times like i did, the rim I used was made in a cheap and cheerful factory somewhere in Asia and was a complete tw#t to get right, infact i did it over a space of 3 days, after the first 5 hours I started again from scratch

[snoopy72]

Where it wobbles at it lowest point, mark it, go to the opposite side and loosen 4 spokes half a turn then go to the original low spot you marked and tighten them 4 spokes half a turn.