Another wheel day (and so on).
A customer brought in PowerTap wheels for service.
Both hub and rim are PowerTap brand, all spokes are black Campagnolo Record,
and both front and rear are 32H reverse Italian laced.
I don't know if the customer was unhappy with these wheels,
but they were built properly.
If I built them with these materials and this method, they'd turn out basically the same.
The customer wants the rims swapped to XR200s,
and since they don't care about keeping black spokes,
they asked me to rebuild them with silver spokes using my best Nomu Lab approach.
On the front wheel, the hub logo and quick-release seem to be
oriented opposite to each other.
But by doing this you can convert reverse Italian lacing to Italian lacing,
so the customer must have done this intentionally. Heh heh, I know what's up.
But there's nothing to be done about the rear wheel.
The rim is a PowerTap brand trapezoidal profile,
and I have the same one—an earlier version with an older sticker—in stock.
I have what I call the "Discarded Rim Tower" standing up from my shop floor,
and I keep it because it's so convenient at times like this.
Since the original tower has reached its height limit, I'm currently building Tower #2.
The customer doesn't need the old rim anymore, so
it'll become material for Tower #2.
↑Tower #1
had some even older version rims buried in there.
Those are a different type—triangular profile.
When taking photos, I considered removing the tires and sprockets,
but that would risk confusing them with
the same wheels I have in for another job, so I left them on until right before work.
Took them apart.
Cleaned and greased the hub.
I may have over-silenced the freewheel pawl noise during relubrication.
(That's a reaction to how gnarly the condition was before washing.)
Built them up.
The front wheel is CX-RAY outpoke radial laced.
The rear is half-Campagnolo 48-spoke cross laced with wire ties.
The original build had brass nipples,
so with both the rim weight reduction and aluminum nipple upgrade,
the outer weight is now considerably lighter.
Built it Italian laced.
A customer brought in PowerTap wheels for service.
Both hub and rim are PowerTap brand, all spokes are black Campagnolo Record,
and both front and rear are 32H reverse Italian laced.
I don't know if the customer was unhappy with these wheels,
but they were built properly.
If I built them with these materials and this method, they'd turn out basically the same.
The customer wants the rims swapped to XR200s,
and since they don't care about keeping black spokes,
they asked me to rebuild them with silver spokes using my best Nomu Lab approach.
On the front wheel, the hub logo and quick-release seem to be
oriented opposite to each other.
But by doing this you can convert reverse Italian lacing to Italian lacing,
so the customer must have done this intentionally. Heh heh, I know what's up.
But there's nothing to be done about the rear wheel.
The rim is a PowerTap brand trapezoidal profile,
and I have the same one—an earlier version with an older sticker—in stock.
I have what I call the "Discarded Rim Tower" standing up from my shop floor,
and I keep it because it's so convenient at times like this.
Since the original tower has reached its height limit, I'm currently building Tower #2.
The customer doesn't need the old rim anymore, so
it'll become material for Tower #2.
↑Tower #1
had some even older version rims buried in there.
Those are a different type—triangular profile.
When taking photos, I considered removing the tires and sprockets,
but that would risk confusing them with
the same wheels I have in for another job, so I left them on until right before work.
Took them apart.
Cleaned and greased the hub.
I may have over-silenced the freewheel pawl noise during relubrication.
(That's a reaction to how gnarly the condition was before washing.)
Built them up.
The front wheel is CX-RAY outpoke radial laced.
The rear is half-Campagnolo 48-spoke cross laced with wire ties.
The original build had brass nipples,
so with both the rim weight reduction and aluminum nipple upgrade,
the outer weight is now considerably lighter.
Built it Italian laced.