Another wheel day (and so on...).
A customer brought in wheels built with Campagnolo Omega 19
WO rims for me to work on.
The size is 650C.
All the spokes on both wheels are CN spokes, black 14-gauge plain,
with gold aluminum nipples. The front wheel is built radial lacing.
Both wheels have slight center deviation and
the radial true isn't perfect either, but there's no lateral runout "at all".
Also, the spokes are thick and the rim inner diameter is small (meaning shorter spokes)
so it's a fairly stiff wheel.
But since the customer wanted a rebuild,
I rebuilt them.
Evo hub 28H, black 4-cross lacing with black aluminum nipples.
Looking at this era Campagnolo rim from the same side,
the Campagnolo sticker lettering direction and
the model name sticker lettering on the opposite side are
reversed.
So when you place the Campagnolo side on the ground and
look up from a position where it reads correctly,
the model name side also reads correctly.
In this same orientation,
if you place the model name side on the ground, the lettering becomes upside down, and
looking up at the Campagnolo sticker from there,
it's also upside down.
There might be different interpretations about which is the "correct" way to build,
but I build so that when the wheel is viewed from the right side with the Campagnolo side on the ground,
the lettering reads correctly.
The front wheel was already that way before rebuilding, but
the rear wheel was the opposite. Regardless of which is "correct",
I think the front and rear should match.
The rear wheel before rebuilding was
an Evo hub 28H with 4-cross lacing.
I could reuse the freewheel-side spokes and
convert the non-freewheel side to a DT CX-RAY 6-cross lacing pattern
to make it equivalent to semi-championship lacing,
but that's only in terms of spoke weight distribution, and
I don't trust CN spokes as much as DT or Sapim spokes, so
I don't reuse them.
This time I'm doing semi-competition lacing anyway, so there's no point in using 14-gauge plain spokes.
Built.
Black semi-competition 4-cross lacing with black aluminum nipples.
I'll do the spoke wrapping later.
A customer brought in wheels built with Campagnolo Omega 19
WO rims for me to work on.
The size is 650C.
All the spokes on both wheels are CN spokes, black 14-gauge plain,
with gold aluminum nipples. The front wheel is built radial lacing.
Both wheels have slight center deviation and
the radial true isn't perfect either, but there's no lateral runout "at all".
Also, the spokes are thick and the rim inner diameter is small (meaning shorter spokes)
so it's a fairly stiff wheel.
But since the customer wanted a rebuild,
I rebuilt them.
Evo hub 28H, black 4-cross lacing with black aluminum nipples.
Looking at this era Campagnolo rim from the same side,
the Campagnolo sticker lettering direction and
the model name sticker lettering on the opposite side are
reversed.
So when you place the Campagnolo side on the ground and
look up from a position where it reads correctly,
the model name side also reads correctly.
In this same orientation,
if you place the model name side on the ground, the lettering becomes upside down, and
looking up at the Campagnolo sticker from there,
it's also upside down.
There might be different interpretations about which is the "correct" way to build,
but I build so that when the wheel is viewed from the right side with the Campagnolo side on the ground,
the lettering reads correctly.
The front wheel was already that way before rebuilding, but
the rear wheel was the opposite. Regardless of which is "correct",
I think the front and rear should match.
The rear wheel before rebuilding was
an Evo hub 28H with 4-cross lacing.
I could reuse the freewheel-side spokes and
convert the non-freewheel side to a DT CX-RAY 6-cross lacing pattern
to make it equivalent to semi-championship lacing,
but that's only in terms of spoke weight distribution, and
I don't trust CN spokes as much as DT or Sapim spokes, so
I don't reuse them.
This time I'm doing semi-competition lacing anyway, so there's no point in using 14-gauge plain spokes.
Built.
Black semi-competition 4-cross lacing with black aluminum nipples.
I'll do the spoke wrapping later.