A customer brought in the front wheel from a Racing ZERO for repairs.
The reason was to replace a broken spoke.
Right here.
It's rare for a spoke to break mid-length, but since it's at the butted section boundary, it does happen from time to time.
In the photo, I'm pulling the spoke from the hub side toward the rim side, but
this gap won't close.
That's because there's quite a lot of tension on it.
Update: The customer apparently chipped it slightly when trying to remove the spoke.
With Ksyrium wheels and similar, when a single spoke breaks,
you sometimes have to loosen the spokes before and after that spot
or the first thread on the nipple won't catch,
but Campagnolo/Fulcrum aluminum spokes
have extra thread length built in,
so you can get one thread on the nipple started at the rim side,
and the spoke head seats into its catch position on the hub side.
This means spoke replacement is easy
even when all the remaining spokes are under full tension.
Done.
You're not imagining it if it looks cleaner—it actually is cleaner.
Since it took a while to get the replacement spoke in, I felt bad about it (officially),
so I took it upon myself to clean it up.
It's a front wheel that chain lube doesn't even hit,
yet somehow the label is all dirty (strange Japanese, that). Ha ha.
Perfect material for the secret techniques of Ninja Y○○Auction, including the "Clean Label Technique" (my real motive).
I couldn't completely remove the wear marks from the metal fragments that got caught in the brake pad,
but I think it came out pretty clean anyway.
I'm worried what I'll do if the customer says "the front and rear look completely different in terms of wear."
Campagnolo Japan made several deliveries today,
but the CS-201 lockring I've had on order since the other day
will take a bit longer to arrive.
The old model is no longer in stock and out of print, but they'll still take orders for it.
Campagnolo apparently will do reruns even in pretty small quantities if it's feasible to manufacture.
The reason was to replace a broken spoke.
Right here.
It's rare for a spoke to break mid-length, but since it's at the butted section boundary, it does happen from time to time.
In the photo, I'm pulling the spoke from the hub side toward the rim side, but
this gap won't close.
That's because there's quite a lot of tension on it.
Update: The customer apparently chipped it slightly when trying to remove the spoke.
With Ksyrium wheels and similar, when a single spoke breaks,
you sometimes have to loosen the spokes before and after that spot
or the first thread on the nipple won't catch,
but Campagnolo/Fulcrum aluminum spokes
have extra thread length built in,
so you can get one thread on the nipple started at the rim side,
and the spoke head seats into its catch position on the hub side.
This means spoke replacement is easy
even when all the remaining spokes are under full tension.
Done.
You're not imagining it if it looks cleaner—it actually is cleaner.
Since it took a while to get the replacement spoke in, I felt bad about it (officially),
so I took it upon myself to clean it up.
It's a front wheel that chain lube doesn't even hit,
yet somehow the label is all dirty (strange Japanese, that). Ha ha.
Perfect material for the secret techniques of Ninja Y○○Auction, including the "Clean Label Technique" (my real motive).
I couldn't completely remove the wear marks from the metal fragments that got caught in the brake pad,
but I think it came out pretty clean anyway.
I'm worried what I'll do if the customer says "the front and rear look completely different in terms of wear."
Campagnolo Japan made several deliveries today,
but the CS-201 lockring I've had on order since the other day
will take a bit longer to arrive.
The old model is no longer in stock and out of print, but they'll still take orders for it.
Campagnolo apparently will do reruns even in pretty small quantities if it's feasible to manufacture.