Another day, another wheel (and so on).
Built Nomunlab Wheel #5 with a 7700 hub.
For the front wheel, I built the HB-7700 32H CX-RAY as outpoke radial lacing.
The customer's preference was "nominally" tangent lacing,
and the reason being that they were aware
this hub is prohibited from radial lacing.
The Shimano hub that first allowed radial lacing
was with the Dura-Ace 7700 generation 105
front hub HB-5500 from the 5500 series,
and its successor model HB-5501,
and the variant HB-5501A.
Of course, radial lacing is possible at the self-responsibility level,
and pro team mechanics back then routinely built these in radial lacing,
and my own current front wheel is an HB-7700 24H
built as outpoke radial lacing.
A 4-cross pattern would've worked fine too, but
there were traces on the hub flange of inpoke radial and Italian lacing patterns from before,
so I went with radial lacing again this time.
Heh heh, so you know what's up.
I identified the tangent lacing traces as Italian lacing because
the inpoke marks present at each hole
were pointing in the same direction on both left and right sides (if reversed, that would be JIS pattern).
Built the rear wheel too.
Built the FH-7700 32H as semi-comp 4-cross.
It came together looking a bit neater than full comp, no need for crossing to ruin it,
but I'll do the actual crossing later.
↑There are scuff marks on the hub shell from when I pulled out the inpoke spokes,
but just to be clear—I didn't cause that.
Besides this, today I also built as a practice piece
the front wheel for Nomunlab Wheel #5,
but I'll get to that another time (earliest tomorrow).
Built Nomunlab Wheel #5 with a 7700 hub.
For the front wheel, I built the HB-7700 32H CX-RAY as outpoke radial lacing.
The customer's preference was "nominally" tangent lacing,
and the reason being that they were aware
this hub is prohibited from radial lacing.
The Shimano hub that first allowed radial lacing
was with the Dura-Ace 7700 generation 105
front hub HB-5500 from the 5500 series,
and its successor model HB-5501,
and the variant HB-5501A.
Of course, radial lacing is possible at the self-responsibility level,
and pro team mechanics back then routinely built these in radial lacing,
and my own current front wheel is an HB-7700 24H
built as outpoke radial lacing.
A 4-cross pattern would've worked fine too, but
there were traces on the hub flange of inpoke radial and Italian lacing patterns from before,
so I went with radial lacing again this time.
I identified the tangent lacing traces as Italian lacing because
the inpoke marks present at each hole
were pointing in the same direction on both left and right sides (if reversed, that would be JIS pattern).
Built the rear wheel too.
Built the FH-7700 32H as semi-comp 4-cross.
It came together looking a bit neater than full comp, no need for crossing to ruin it,
but I'll do the actual crossing later.
↑There are scuff marks on the hub shell from when I pulled out the inpoke spokes,
but just to be clear—I didn't cause that.
Besides this, today I also built as a practice piece
the front wheel for Nomunlab Wheel #5,
but I'll get to that another time (earliest tomorrow).