Shamal Mille

A customer brought in a Shamal Mille (Campagnolo wheel) for me to work on.
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Both front and rear wheels have almost no wobble.
The front wheel only needed adjustments at 2 nipples, the rear at 5 nipples.
The front wheel was perfectly centered, and the rear wheel likely was too originally.
The reason being, this particular freewheel had a very quiet spinning noise,
so the customer asked me to make it noisier.
The reverse-threaded right locknut wouldn't come loose by hand,
but it was threaded on a bit loosely,
so after wiping the grease off the freewheel body, I tightened it down much harder than before.
That tightening caused the right end to compress, which shifted the rim center by about the same amount.
This is right at the limit of what I can detect with the centering gauge I use.
When the right end compresses, the rim appears to shift toward the freewheel side,
so I had to forcibly find some lateral wobble on the non-freewheel side and tighten those nipples slightly.
That ended up being 5 spokes out of the 7 on the non-freewheel side,
which accounts for the 5 adjustments I mentioned earlier.

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