I've finally managed to build the
88mm high rim (see here) that I wasn't able to get spokes for until now.
Before rebuilding, this had black spokes,
but now it's silver spokes at the customer's request.
A 24-hole hub that looks like a Leaf hub—half-champion laced with a tension nipple.
The non-driveside was able to get tensioned so well I thought the tension nipple might be unnecessary, but I did it anyway.
The reason it took so long to do this lacing pattern (which is pretty standard for our shop) is something I'll write about in the next post, but it's because our DT spoke distributor changed.
I even bought up the lengths we use most from the previous distributor's stock, but we burned through them in no time.
With an 88mm high rim rear wheel, if it were 20-hole I wouldn't hesitate to go half-champion, but with 24-hole I'd prefer to do half-competition.
I cut the required length for this driveside 4-spoke lacing from the shortest available silver competition spoke length,
and formed the threads. The nipple position has become problematic.
Even cutting from the shortest available length, I had to remove more than 30mm,
and as you can see, the threads are encroaching on the butted section of the 15-gauge spoke.
So when you turn the 14-gauge nipple...
it pulls through inside the spoke.
I was hesitant about building a wheel like this, but when I found out that the new DT distributor's shortest competition length
was a few millimeters shorter than the previous one, I thought maybe if I cut from that length it might work...
so I went through all the procedures to order and test it, but it didn't work out either.
Actually, that image above is cutting from that shortest length.
I was torn between doing 6-spoke lacing instead of 4-spoke, or going back to half-champion,
but the customer said all-CX-RAY was fine too.
No way—that won't get the job done properly.
So I decided to go with half-champion even if it gets called "too stiff,"
but I only had 2 silver champion 14-gauge spokes left in stock—ugh!
So it took a bit of time to establish stable supply.
The recent pattern of having many front wheels built but rear wheels still waiting
is also related to the DT distributor change.
By the way, this rear wheel before rebuilding was black CX-RAY 40-hole laced.
In the image above, on the inside of the driveside flange,
you can see marks where the non-driveside spoke heads rested.
↑Non-driveside spoke head marks on the outside of the flange
↑The outside of the non-driveside—since it's radial laced, no marks appear.
↑And on the inside of the non-driveside,
perhaps because the non-driveside radial lacing is low-tension,
the spoke head marks were quite faint.
88mm high rim (see here) that I wasn't able to get spokes for until now.
Before rebuilding, this had black spokes,
but now it's silver spokes at the customer's request.
A 24-hole hub that looks like a Leaf hub—half-champion laced with a tension nipple.
The non-driveside was able to get tensioned so well I thought the tension nipple might be unnecessary, but I did it anyway.
The reason it took so long to do this lacing pattern (which is pretty standard for our shop) is something I'll write about in the next post, but it's because our DT spoke distributor changed.
I even bought up the lengths we use most from the previous distributor's stock, but we burned through them in no time.
With an 88mm high rim rear wheel, if it were 20-hole I wouldn't hesitate to go half-champion, but with 24-hole I'd prefer to do half-competition.
I cut the required length for this driveside 4-spoke lacing from the shortest available silver competition spoke length,
and formed the threads. The nipple position has become problematic.
Even cutting from the shortest available length, I had to remove more than 30mm,
and as you can see, the threads are encroaching on the butted section of the 15-gauge spoke.
So when you turn the 14-gauge nipple...
it pulls through inside the spoke.
I was hesitant about building a wheel like this, but when I found out that the new DT distributor's shortest competition length
was a few millimeters shorter than the previous one, I thought maybe if I cut from that length it might work...
so I went through all the procedures to order and test it, but it didn't work out either.
Actually, that image above is cutting from that shortest length.
I was torn between doing 6-spoke lacing instead of 4-spoke, or going back to half-champion,
but the customer said all-CX-RAY was fine too.
No way—that won't get the job done properly.
So I decided to go with half-champion even if it gets called "too stiff,"
but I only had 2 silver champion 14-gauge spokes left in stock—ugh!
So it took a bit of time to establish stable supply.
The recent pattern of having many front wheels built but rear wheels still waiting
is also related to the DT distributor change.
By the way, this rear wheel before rebuilding was black CX-RAY 40-hole laced.
In the image above, on the inside of the driveside flange,
you can see marks where the non-driveside spoke heads rested.
↑Non-driveside spoke head marks on the outside of the flange
↑The outside of the non-driveside—since it's radial laced, no marks appear.
↑And on the inside of the non-driveside,
perhaps because the non-driveside radial lacing is low-tension,
the spoke head marks were quite faint.