Another day with wheels (and so on).
A customer brought in a Prime rear wheel for me to work on.
It's a Novatec hub, 24 hole, all-black CX-RAY straight spokes, 2-cross lacing both sides.
The non-freewheel side was a bit loose, but I had already tightened it when doing centering work before. The freewheel side is tensioned almost to its limit, and I explained that the only way to tighten it further would be to rebuild the wheel entirely. They decided to go ahead with it.
Got it built.
Evolight hub, 24 hole, black semi-comp, 4-cross lacing with spoke nipple soldering.
Normally I say I'll do the spoke nipple soldering later and put it off, but today there were so many wheel pickups that I ended up doing a ton of soldering. Plus, a customer brought in a fixed gear wheel that I'd previously built without soldering, requesting that I add the soldering now. Since fixed gear rear wheels without a dropout or with a small dropout require soldering all the final crossings on both sides, it took quite a bit of time. The Prime wheel I built today already has the soldering done.
A customer brought in a Prime rear wheel for me to work on.
It's a Novatec hub, 24 hole, all-black CX-RAY straight spokes, 2-cross lacing both sides.
The non-freewheel side was a bit loose, but I had already tightened it when doing centering work before. The freewheel side is tensioned almost to its limit, and I explained that the only way to tighten it further would be to rebuild the wheel entirely. They decided to go ahead with it.
Got it built.
Evolight hub, 24 hole, black semi-comp, 4-cross lacing with spoke nipple soldering.
Normally I say I'll do the spoke nipple soldering later and put it off, but today there were so many wheel pickups that I ended up doing a ton of soldering. Plus, a customer brought in a fixed gear wheel that I'd previously built without soldering, requesting that I add the soldering now. Since fixed gear rear wheels without a dropout or with a small dropout require soldering all the final crossings on both sides, it took quite a bit of time. The Prime wheel I built today already has the soldering done.