Another day with wheels (and so on).
A customer brought in the rear wheel of their Nomu Lab Wheel No. 5.
I'll write about the cause later, but apparently the rim was out of true.
Just looking at it briefly, I could tell the rim was bent, so a rim replacement was necessary.
So I'm going to replace the rear rim.
When I hold the new rim alongside the old one,
↑You can see it's bent this much.
Actually, I later placed the original rim by itself on a glass plate and
it was seriously bent.
One spoke on the freewheel side was bent, so I'll replace it.
Before installing the replacement spoke, I'll use it as a brush to apply
threadlocker to the remaining 23 spokes, then swap it out.
Moving the rim over...
↑The spoke from earlier
All assembled.
A customer brought in the rear wheel of their Nomu Lab Wheel No. 5.
I'll write about the cause later, but apparently the rim was out of true.
Just looking at it briefly, I could tell the rim was bent, so a rim replacement was necessary.
So I'm going to replace the rear rim.
When I hold the new rim alongside the old one,
↑You can see it's bent this much.
Actually, I later placed the original rim by itself on a glass plate and
it was seriously bent.
One spoke on the freewheel side was bent, so I'll replace it.
Before installing the replacement spoke, I'll use it as a brush to apply
threadlocker to the remaining 23 spokes, then swap it out.
Moving the rim over...
↑The spoke from earlier
All assembled.