More wheel work today (and so on...).
A customer brought me a Reynolds 32 rear wheel.
They said it was loose and wanted me to rebuild it.
The hub is a DT-made one under the Reynolds brand,
24 spoke, all black CX-RAY straight spokes in a 4-cross pattern,
and neither side was laced with the final cross.
I could rebuild this hub with heavier spokes on the freewheel side and lace both sides with the final cross, then thread the non-freewheel side — it would transform quite a bit. But since the customer is okay with switching to a different hub,
I'll rebuild it with an Evolite hub.
As I carefully disassembled it...
the internal nipples, which hadn't been loosened at all, became visible outside the rim.
The spoke length on both sides is on the long side, but
when I tried tightening them up,
they turned smoothly for about 5 threads, and considering the recess depth on the side contacting the inner rim is fairly substantial, they might not be too long after all.
Built it up.
Evolite hub, 24 spoke, black semi-competition, 4-6 cross pattern.
I'll thread it later.
The original DT-made hub—its flange shape is almost identical to the PowerTap GS.
According to PowerTap GS instructions, you'd think left and right spoke length would be the same using their calculation table, but that's nonsense.
The spokes on this 32 before rebuilding were also different lengths side-to-side.
Someone might say the Reynolds is a high-low flange while the GS has equal diameter flanges, but the difference in Reynolds spoke length comes from a mix of dishing and high-low flange geometry. Even with the GS, the dishing component means left and right will have different lengths.
That PowerTap calculation table doesn't produce exactly the midpoint between freewheel and non-freewheel spoke lengths.
By the way, with the Reynolds 32, the manufacturer LEW was acquired by Reynolds, so there was an exclusive supply contract that prevented the rim from going elsewhere.
But Reynolds discontinued it, which made it possible to get no-label versions of the original 32 rim.
That's what the nomlab wheel #6 rim is.
I also weighed the rim—accounting for rim cement on the tire bead surface, it was a light unit.
I rebuilt a Reynolds DV46T the other day too.
I was going to weigh that rim, but it had weights glued on and thick TUFO and Miyata tape remnants on the tire bead, so I judged there'd be too much noise and didn't weigh it.
Incidentally, I also weighed the rim on a Reynolds Attack tubeless I built a bit before that.
And further incidentally, I have no intention of telling you what that weight was.
↑wow this guy is seriously unpleasant
Sorry for the wait! Please look at this image!
It's an Attack rim!
It's a 32 rim!
↑Stop iiiiiit!
A customer brought me a Reynolds 32 rear wheel.
They said it was loose and wanted me to rebuild it.
The hub is a DT-made one under the Reynolds brand,
24 spoke, all black CX-RAY straight spokes in a 4-cross pattern,
and neither side was laced with the final cross.
I could rebuild this hub with heavier spokes on the freewheel side and lace both sides with the final cross, then thread the non-freewheel side — it would transform quite a bit. But since the customer is okay with switching to a different hub,
I'll rebuild it with an Evolite hub.
As I carefully disassembled it...
the internal nipples, which hadn't been loosened at all, became visible outside the rim.
The spoke length on both sides is on the long side, but
when I tried tightening them up,
they turned smoothly for about 5 threads, and considering the recess depth on the side contacting the inner rim is fairly substantial, they might not be too long after all.
Built it up.
Evolite hub, 24 spoke, black semi-competition, 4-6 cross pattern.
I'll thread it later.
The original DT-made hub—its flange shape is almost identical to the PowerTap GS.
According to PowerTap GS instructions, you'd think left and right spoke length would be the same using their calculation table, but that's nonsense.
The spokes on this 32 before rebuilding were also different lengths side-to-side.
Someone might say the Reynolds is a high-low flange while the GS has equal diameter flanges, but the difference in Reynolds spoke length comes from a mix of dishing and high-low flange geometry. Even with the GS, the dishing component means left and right will have different lengths.
That PowerTap calculation table doesn't produce exactly the midpoint between freewheel and non-freewheel spoke lengths.
By the way, with the Reynolds 32, the manufacturer LEW was acquired by Reynolds, so there was an exclusive supply contract that prevented the rim from going elsewhere.
But Reynolds discontinued it, which made it possible to get no-label versions of the original 32 rim.
That's what the nomlab wheel #6 rim is.
I also weighed the rim—accounting for rim cement on the tire bead surface, it was a light unit.
I rebuilt a Reynolds DV46T the other day too.
I was going to weigh that rim, but it had weights glued on and thick TUFO and Miyata tape remnants on the tire bead, so I judged there'd be too much noise and didn't weigh it.
Incidentally, I also weighed the rim on a Reynolds Attack tubeless I built a bit before that.
And further incidentally, I have no intention of telling you what that weight was.
↑wow this guy is seriously unpleasant
Sorry for the wait! Please look at this image!
It's an Attack rim!
It's a 32 rim!
↑Stop iiiiiit!