Another day, another wheel (and so on).
I received a wheel built with Open Pro from a customer.
The rim maker's sticker has been removed, but it's definitely an Open Pro.
By the way, it's a 650C.
It's built with a 5800 hub, 32H, black Revolutions, 68-spoke lacing pattern,
but the customer says it's abnormally loose and wants it rebuilt.
With 65% spoke weight ratio round-profile spokes in identical diameter and equal quantity left and right,
the only thing that determines the wheel's characteristics is
the amount of spoke tension (pulling the freewheel side as tight as possible),
The non-freewheel side is
all wobbly.
(The tape position is the same, just to be clear.)
Actually, the freewheel side is
pretty wobbly too.
If you pull these spokes too hard, you get permanent elongation deformation,
but the freewheel side is well below that threshold, so there's still room to tension.
I think the person who built this wheel was saying "when I build them, permanent deformation doesn't happen,"
but with a wheel like this,
if you build it below the threshold, of course deformation won't happen.
If he's claiming permanent deformation doesn't occur even when building above the threshold,
then he's defying the laws of physics.
Totally unrelated, but the other day a customer weighed
some part on our scale here at the shop, and
it showed "minus 5g". I thought antimatter had been generated,
but it turned out the scale just hadn't been zeroed properly.
Edit: I received a comment noting that antimatter's mass is positive.
Thank you for the correction.
The Open Pro wheel I built with a Chorus hub yesterday
was actually a hub swap on a rear wheel I'd built before.
Since rebuilding it would be a pain, I fantasized that if I just pushed the new hub onto the rear wheel flange,
quantum tunneling might make the hub swap over,
but it would take billions of years to test that theory,
whereas rebuilding it properly takes just a few dozen minutes, so I gave up on the idea.
Defying the laws of physics just isn't possible.
All built up.
9000 hub, 32H, black semi-comp, 48-spoke lacing with spoke relief. The nipples are silver aluminum per the customer's request.
I received a wheel built with Open Pro from a customer.
The rim maker's sticker has been removed, but it's definitely an Open Pro.
By the way, it's a 650C.
It's built with a 5800 hub, 32H, black Revolutions, 68-spoke lacing pattern,
but the customer says it's abnormally loose and wants it rebuilt.
With 65% spoke weight ratio round-profile spokes in identical diameter and equal quantity left and right,
the only thing that determines the wheel's characteristics is
the amount of spoke tension (pulling the freewheel side as tight as possible),
The non-freewheel side is
all wobbly.
(The tape position is the same, just to be clear.)
Actually, the freewheel side is
pretty wobbly too.
If you pull these spokes too hard, you get permanent elongation deformation,
but the freewheel side is well below that threshold, so there's still room to tension.
I think the person who built this wheel was saying "when I build them, permanent deformation doesn't happen,"
but with a wheel like this,
if you build it below the threshold, of course deformation won't happen.
If he's claiming permanent deformation doesn't occur even when building above the threshold,
then he's defying the laws of physics.
Totally unrelated, but the other day a customer weighed
some part on our scale here at the shop, and
it showed "minus 5g". I thought antimatter had been generated,
but it turned out the scale just hadn't been zeroed properly.
Edit: I received a comment noting that antimatter's mass is positive.
Thank you for the correction.
The Open Pro wheel I built with a Chorus hub yesterday
was actually a hub swap on a rear wheel I'd built before.
Since rebuilding it would be a pain, I fantasized that if I just pushed the new hub onto the rear wheel flange,
quantum tunneling might make the hub swap over,
but it would take billions of years to test that theory,
whereas rebuilding it properly takes just a few dozen minutes, so I gave up on the idea.
Defying the laws of physics just isn't possible.
All built up.
9000 hub, 32H, black semi-comp, 48-spoke lacing with spoke relief. The nipples are silver aluminum per the customer's request.