Another day of wheels (and so on).
A customer left me some PowerTap wheels for work.
The hub and rim are both PowerTap, with all-black competition spokes,
and both wheels are 32-hole laced in reverse Italian style.
I'm not sure if the customer was unhappy with these wheels,
but they were built properly.
If I had built them myself with the same materials and method, the result would be nearly identical.
The customer's request is to rebuild them with XR200 rims,
and since they don't insist on keeping the black spokes,
they want me to rebuild them with silver spokes using Nomu Lab's best practices.
On the front wheel, the relationship between the front hub logo and the quick release
appears to be inverted.
But by doing this, you can convert reverse Italian lacing to Italian lacing,
so the customer must have done this intentionally. Ha ha, I understand.
There's nothing you can do about the rear wheel though.
The rims are PowerTap-brand with a trapezoidal profile, and
I happened to have an earlier version with the same sticker here at the shop.
We have what we call the "Discarded Rim Tower" standing up from the floor,
and it's so handy for situations like this that I can't bring myself to tear it down.
Since the Tower's height has reached its limit, we're currently building a second one.
The customer doesn't need the old rim anymore, so
it'll become material for the second tower.
↑Tower #1
and I found rims from an even earlier version mixed in part of it.
These have a triangular profile, so they're a different thing entirely.
When taking photos, I considered removing the tires and sprockets,
but doing so would risk confusing them with
identical wheels I have in for separate work, so I left them on until just before I started.
I took them apart.
I cleaned up the hubs.
I may have over-suppressed the clicking sound of the freewheel pawls when regreasing.
(That's a reaction to how rough things were before cleaning.)
Got them built.
The front wheel is CX-RAY spokes in anti-NUL radial lacing.
For the rear wheel, I went with semi-competition spokes in 48-hole lacing with crossed sections.
The previous build used brass nipples, so
with both the lighter rim and aluminum nipples,
the outer weight has been reduced considerably.
Finished with Italian lacing.
A customer left me some PowerTap wheels for work.
The hub and rim are both PowerTap, with all-black competition spokes,
and both wheels are 32-hole laced in reverse Italian style.
I'm not sure if the customer was unhappy with these wheels,
but they were built properly.
If I had built them myself with the same materials and method, the result would be nearly identical.
The customer's request is to rebuild them with XR200 rims,
and since they don't insist on keeping the black spokes,
they want me to rebuild them with silver spokes using Nomu Lab's best practices.
On the front wheel, the relationship between the front hub logo and the quick release
appears to be inverted.
But by doing this, you can convert reverse Italian lacing to Italian lacing,
so the customer must have done this intentionally. Ha ha, I understand.
There's nothing you can do about the rear wheel though.
The rims are PowerTap-brand with a trapezoidal profile, and
I happened to have an earlier version with the same sticker here at the shop.
We have what we call the "Discarded Rim Tower" standing up from the floor,
and it's so handy for situations like this that I can't bring myself to tear it down.
Since the Tower's height has reached its limit, we're currently building a second one.
The customer doesn't need the old rim anymore, so
it'll become material for the second tower.
↑Tower #1
and I found rims from an even earlier version mixed in part of it.
These have a triangular profile, so they're a different thing entirely.
When taking photos, I considered removing the tires and sprockets,
but doing so would risk confusing them with
identical wheels I have in for separate work, so I left them on until just before I started.
I took them apart.
I cleaned up the hubs.
I may have over-suppressed the clicking sound of the freewheel pawls when regreasing.
(That's a reaction to how rough things were before cleaning.)
Got them built.
The front wheel is CX-RAY spokes in anti-NUL radial lacing.
For the rear wheel, I went with semi-competition spokes in 48-hole lacing with crossed sections.
The previous build used brass nipples, so
with both the lighter rim and aluminum nipples,
the outer weight has been reduced considerably.
Finished with Italian lacing.