27 inch spoke question

[Sven]

I just stripped down the rear wheel on my 79 Suburban. I removed the spokes and place them in separate piles, gear side in one pile and a pile in nongear side.
Question - Did schwinn use the the same length spoke for both sides?
As everyone knows, the gear side should halve shorter spokes, than that of the nongear side. There's usually only a 2 or 3 mm difference.
I measured a few of them from each pile . Then all of them. About 90% came out to the same measurement. I did have about 3 that were about 2 mm shorter. The majority were 11 3/4 inches or 298 mm.

 

[mongeese]

Schwinn !!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[GTs58]

I can't say what Schwinn did on the Suburban, but the 61-62 Corvette 5 speeds had the same size spoke on both sides and it used the same hub that was on the 10 speeds.

 

[TR6SC]

Does this mean that the offset is very low, and the nipples grabbed different amounts of thread? Or the flanges are different heights? Or the crosses are 3 and 4?

 

[Sven]

Does this mean that the offset is very low, and the nipples grabbed different amounts of thread? Or the flanges are different heights? Or the crosses are 3 and 4?

The left and right hub flanges are the same size [ 45mm center hole to center hole] It's a small flagged / schwinn approved French made hub.

If my calculations are correct , my ERD is 619mm

Plugging the measurements into spoke length calculators that are on line . The results are 300mm non gear side, 298mm gear side. Each calculator gives slightly different result. But in same the ball park.

A spoke has a 56tpi . 2mm would be about 3.5 threads.

 

[detroitbike]

I recall all being the same length..
11 9/16"