Today it's wheels again (and so on).
A customer brought in a rear wheel built with a Kinrin TB25 rim.
If this were a rim we sold at our shop, it would be the Nomu Lab Wheel #4.
It's a Deore 135mm width 32H hub, fully comp reverse Italian lacing.
The spoke tension was loose, and the spoke bases on the freewheel side were splintered by the chain slap, so they can't be reused.
The wheel was also out of center (not in the direction it typically goes with age).
I'm rebuilding the wheel with a new fully comp hub, and I thought I'd really get to enjoy the difference in ride feel before and after rebuilding—hehe—but it turns out the customer isn't even the original owner of this wheel and has never ridden it.Damn, that's no fun.
The centerlock spline being copper-colored isn't rust but prep grease.
There's nothing wrong with applying grease, but there's no need for it to be prep grease specifically.
It's built.
FH-RS505 32H fully comp 4-6 JIS lacing with spoke connections.
Comparing the original Deore hub with the RS505 hub: both are 135mm width quick-release rear hubs with centerlock disc brake mounts, and the hub dimensions are nearly identical, but the Deore has a 10-speed freewheel body while the RS505 has an 11-speed freewheel body.
When I disassembled them and compared the rear hubs side by side, the RS505 was subtly but distinctly narrower in flange width.
This is because the 11-speed freewheel body tightens the flange spacing.
A customer brought in a rear wheel built with a Kinrin TB25 rim.
If this were a rim we sold at our shop, it would be the Nomu Lab Wheel #4.
It's a Deore 135mm width 32H hub, fully comp reverse Italian lacing.
The spoke tension was loose, and the spoke bases on the freewheel side were splintered by the chain slap, so they can't be reused.
The wheel was also out of center (not in the direction it typically goes with age).
I'm rebuilding the wheel with a new fully comp hub, and I thought I'd really get to enjoy the difference in ride feel before and after rebuilding—hehe—but it turns out the customer isn't even the original owner of this wheel and has never ridden it.
The centerlock spline being copper-colored isn't rust but prep grease.
There's nothing wrong with applying grease, but there's no need for it to be prep grease specifically.
It's built.
FH-RS505 32H fully comp 4-6 JIS lacing with spoke connections.
Comparing the original Deore hub with the RS505 hub: both are 135mm width quick-release rear hubs with centerlock disc brake mounts, and the hub dimensions are nearly identical, but the Deore has a 10-speed freewheel body while the RS505 has an 11-speed freewheel body.
When I disassembled them and compared the rear hubs side by side, the RS505 was subtly but distinctly narrower in flange width.
This is because the 11-speed freewheel body tightens the flange spacing.