A customer dropped off the rear wheel from a Nomu Lab Wheel #5.
The front wheel had a silver hub with black rim, and the rear wheel had a black hub with silver rim,
with silver spokes on one side and black reverse spokes on the other,
and nipple colors inverted from the spoke colors — it was built as a raffle prize wheel.
The rim got deformed after hitting something, so we needed to replace it.
I knew the rim had gone potato-chip-shaped already,
but I forcefully straightened the lateral runout anyway,
which resulted in spokes that lost almost all tension.
Since I was busy at the time, I handed it back like that,
but runout appeared right away. Yeah, this wasn't going to work. I knew it.
For the rim replacement,
Tni's AL22 28H silver rim is currently out of stock.
And the AL22 rim doesn't come in black 28H (at least not yet).
The XR200 in black 28H — which is the same as (or rather, the original design of) the AL22 —
is in our shop inventory, but we don't have tons of them.
We'll have to use it anyway since we don't have a choice.
In the middle of relocating the rim...
Got it built.
We reused the hub and spokes, and most of the nipples as well.
The nipples we couldn't reuse were ones that had been coated with strong thread-locking compound during
the previous quick-fix attempt,
and they were difficult to loosen without stripping the threads at all.
I get asked sometimes whether truing is possible on wheels that have soldered spoke connections,
and the answer is yes — truing is possible, and rim relocation is possible too.
The front wheel had a silver hub with black rim, and the rear wheel had a black hub with silver rim,
with silver spokes on one side and black reverse spokes on the other,
and nipple colors inverted from the spoke colors — it was built as a raffle prize wheel.
The rim got deformed after hitting something, so we needed to replace it.
I knew the rim had gone potato-chip-shaped already,
but I forcefully straightened the lateral runout anyway,
which resulted in spokes that lost almost all tension.
Since I was busy at the time, I handed it back like that,
but runout appeared right away. Yeah, this wasn't going to work. I knew it.
For the rim replacement,
Tni's AL22 28H silver rim is currently out of stock.
And the AL22 rim doesn't come in black 28H (at least not yet).
The XR200 in black 28H — which is the same as (or rather, the original design of) the AL22 —
is in our shop inventory, but we don't have tons of them.
We'll have to use it anyway since we don't have a choice.
In the middle of relocating the rim...
Got it built.
We reused the hub and spokes, and most of the nipples as well.
The nipples we couldn't reuse were ones that had been coated with strong thread-locking compound during
the previous quick-fix attempt,
and they were difficult to loosen without stripping the threads at all.
I get asked sometimes whether truing is possible on wheels that have soldered spoke connections,
and the answer is yes — truing is possible, and rim relocation is possible too.