A customer dropped off the rear wheel of Nomu Lab Wheel No. 5 with me.
The front wheel has a silver hub with black rim, and the rear has a black hub with silver rim.
The spokes are silver inpokes and black outpokes,
with nipple colors reversed from the spoke colors—
it's a lottery raffle prize wheel that was built that way.
The rim got bent out of shape after something hit it, so we're replacing it.
I knew the rim was already potato-chip wavy,
but I forced out the lateral runout anyway, which resulted in spokes
that lost almost all their tension.
Things were busy, so I handed it back like that,
but it started moving again right away. Yeah, didn't work. Figured as much.
For the rim replacement:
Tni's AL22 in 28H silver is currently out of stock.
And there's no black 28H AL22 rim (at least not yet).
We do have XR200 black 28H in stock—it's the same spec as the AL22 (or rather, the original inspiration for it)—
but we don't have a ton of them.
No choice but to use what we have.
Rim relocation in progress...
Got it built up.
The hub and spokes were reused, and most of the nipples too.
The nipples I couldn't reuse were ones I'd applied heavy-duty threadlocker to
during that previous quick fix,
and they were really difficult to loosen without stripping the threads.
People sometimes ask me: can you true a wheel that's soldered at the spokes?
The answer is yes—truing is possible, and rim relocation is possible too.
The front wheel has a silver hub with black rim, and the rear has a black hub with silver rim.
The spokes are silver inpokes and black outpokes,
with nipple colors reversed from the spoke colors—
it's a lottery raffle prize wheel that was built that way.
The rim got bent out of shape after something hit it, so we're replacing it.
I knew the rim was already potato-chip wavy,
but I forced out the lateral runout anyway, which resulted in spokes
that lost almost all their tension.
Things were busy, so I handed it back like that,
but it started moving again right away. Yeah, didn't work. Figured as much.
For the rim replacement:
Tni's AL22 in 28H silver is currently out of stock.
And there's no black 28H AL22 rim (at least not yet).
We do have XR200 black 28H in stock—it's the same spec as the AL22 (or rather, the original inspiration for it)—
but we don't have a ton of them.
No choice but to use what we have.
Rim relocation in progress...
Got it built up.
The hub and spokes were reused, and most of the nipples too.
The nipples I couldn't reuse were ones I'd applied heavy-duty threadlocker to
during that previous quick fix,
and they were really difficult to loosen without stripping the threads.
People sometimes ask me: can you true a wheel that's soldered at the spokes?
The answer is yes—truing is possible, and rim relocation is possible too.