Another day, another wheel (and so on).
A customer brought in a rear wheel built with a Kinrin TB25 rim.
If this were a rim we'd sold at the shop, it would be the Nomu Lab Wheel #4.
It's a Deore 135mm 32-hole hub, fully comp, reverse Italian lacing. Tension was on the loose side, and the inpoke spokes on the freewheel side had splinter damage at the root from chain suck—no way to reuse them.
The wheel was dished off too (not in the direction you'd expect from normal use). So I'm swapping in a new hub and rebuilding with all-comp components. I was looking forward to really feeling the difference in how it rides before and after—hehehehe—but it turns out the customer wasn't the original owner and has never even ridden this wheel.Damn, that's no fun.
The copper color on the centerlock spline isn't rust, it's assembly grease. Using grease is fine, but there's no need for prep grease specifically.
Got it built.
FH-RS505, 32 holes, all comp, 4x6 JIS lacing with wiring. The original Deore hub and the RS505 hub—both are 135mm quick-release rear hubs with centerlock disc mounts, and the overall dimensions are almost identical. The difference is that the Deore uses a 10-speed freebody while the RS505 uses an 11-speed freebody.
When I stripped them down and checked the hubs against each other, I could clearly see—just barely—that the RS505 had narrower flanges. This is because the 11-speed freebody tightens up the axle/flange geometry.
A customer brought in a rear wheel built with a Kinrin TB25 rim.
If this were a rim we'd sold at the shop, it would be the Nomu Lab Wheel #4.
It's a Deore 135mm 32-hole hub, fully comp, reverse Italian lacing. Tension was on the loose side, and the inpoke spokes on the freewheel side had splinter damage at the root from chain suck—no way to reuse them.
The wheel was dished off too (not in the direction you'd expect from normal use). So I'm swapping in a new hub and rebuilding with all-comp components. I was looking forward to really feeling the difference in how it rides before and after—hehehehe—but it turns out the customer wasn't the original owner and has never even ridden this wheel.
The copper color on the centerlock spline isn't rust, it's assembly grease. Using grease is fine, but there's no need for prep grease specifically.
Got it built.
FH-RS505, 32 holes, all comp, 4x6 JIS lacing with wiring. The original Deore hub and the RS505 hub—both are 135mm quick-release rear hubs with centerlock disc mounts, and the overall dimensions are almost identical. The difference is that the Deore uses a 10-speed freebody while the RS505 uses an 11-speed freebody.
When I stripped them down and checked the hubs against each other, I could clearly see—just barely—that the RS505 had narrower flanges. This is because the 11-speed freebody tightens up the axle/flange geometry.