Another wheel day (and so on).
I took in a rear wheel built with a PowerTap hub and
an Open Pro rim from a customer.
One spoke was broken, but rather than just repairing it,
the customer wanted a complete spoke replacement and rebuild.
Before the rebuild, it was laced with mystery plain spokes, 32H in 4-cross JIS pattern.
I disassembled the wheel and cleaned the hub.
All built up.
PowerTap "Pro" hub 32H, black half-comp, 4-cross Italian lacing with tension indicators.
I also have the matching front wheel in for inspection.
HB-9000, 32H, laced with mystery #14 plain spokes in radial pattern.
The wheel is dead center with virtually no rim runout,
and I only needed to turn the nipples slightly in just two spots.
I'm not even sure that was necessary—the wheel was barely off.
All I really did was wipe down the hub shell with a cloth.
One small nitpick—it doesn't affect performance, but
the alignment of the Dura-Ace marking and the valve hole bothers me.
It looks cleaner when the Dura-Ace marking lines up exactly with the valve hole (I'm in that camp),
or alternately 180° opposite (which is Shimano's standard),
but the current alignment is off.
The spokes used on both wheels had markings that I thought meant "Abutmatt Karashinikov,"
but I couldn't determine the actual manufacturer.
※It doesn't actually mean that.
I took in a rear wheel built with a PowerTap hub and
an Open Pro rim from a customer.
One spoke was broken, but rather than just repairing it,
the customer wanted a complete spoke replacement and rebuild.
Before the rebuild, it was laced with mystery plain spokes, 32H in 4-cross JIS pattern.
I disassembled the wheel and cleaned the hub.
All built up.
PowerTap "Pro" hub 32H, black half-comp, 4-cross Italian lacing with tension indicators.
I also have the matching front wheel in for inspection.
HB-9000, 32H, laced with mystery #14 plain spokes in radial pattern.
The wheel is dead center with virtually no rim runout,
and I only needed to turn the nipples slightly in just two spots.
I'm not even sure that was necessary—the wheel was barely off.
All I really did was wipe down the hub shell with a cloth.
One small nitpick—it doesn't affect performance, but
the alignment of the Dura-Ace marking and the valve hole bothers me.
It looks cleaner when the Dura-Ace marking lines up exactly with the valve hole (I'm in that camp),
or alternately 180° opposite (which is Shimano's standard),
but the current alignment is off.
The spokes used on both wheels had markings that I thought meant "Abutmatt Karashinikov,"
but I couldn't determine the actual manufacturer.
※It doesn't actually mean that.