I received a Shamal Mille (Campagnolo wheel) from a customer.
The wheel had runout, and
nearly all 7 spokes on the non-drive side showed damage,
so something must have gotten caught in there.
The runout at the problematic spot was clearly
caused by spoke deformation,
so at the point of the image above, I released the tension and
removed the spoke head from the flange.
↑This one
Fixed.
While we were at it, the customer requested a spoke color upgrade (red spokes),
and I didn't take photos, but I also upgraded the front wheel after this.
For the reasons I wrote about previously,
the front spokes had to be red spokes with text,
and I suggested that the rear left spokes could be plain red spokes without text,
but the customer ended up choosing red spokes with text for both wheels.
Since the damaged spoke that needed replacement wasn't near the valve hole,
I used the black spoke I removed from near the valve hole as a replacement,
and positioned the red spoke near the valve hole instead.
So there were two marks from the removed spokes for one replacement,
but during work I found another odd runout spot, and
I found another spoke that needed replacement.
So there were three tape marks total,
and since I had inspected this rear wheel myself in the past,
it straightened out with just adjustments to these three spoke nipples,
and when I first applied the centering gauge after truing,
it was perfectly centered.
The other damaged spokes showed no runout
(meaning they had almost no deformation) so I didn't replace them.
↑The replaced spoke
The deformation was mainly lateral, not front-to-back,
Before it bent, it was straight (←obviously)
The deformation looks like this.
With simple lateral bending, just bowing in one direction,
I sometimes hand-correct and reuse it,
but when it's kinked and twisted like this, I definitely replace it.
The wheel had runout, and
nearly all 7 spokes on the non-drive side showed damage,
so something must have gotten caught in there.
The runout at the problematic spot was clearly
caused by spoke deformation,
so at the point of the image above, I released the tension and
removed the spoke head from the flange.
↑This one
Fixed.
While we were at it, the customer requested a spoke color upgrade (red spokes),
and I didn't take photos, but I also upgraded the front wheel after this.
For the reasons I wrote about previously,
the front spokes had to be red spokes with text,
and I suggested that the rear left spokes could be plain red spokes without text,
but the customer ended up choosing red spokes with text for both wheels.
Since the damaged spoke that needed replacement wasn't near the valve hole,
I used the black spoke I removed from near the valve hole as a replacement,
and positioned the red spoke near the valve hole instead.
So there were two marks from the removed spokes for one replacement,
but during work I found another odd runout spot, and
I found another spoke that needed replacement.
So there were three tape marks total,
and since I had inspected this rear wheel myself in the past,
it straightened out with just adjustments to these three spoke nipples,
and when I first applied the centering gauge after truing,
it was perfectly centered.
The other damaged spokes showed no runout
(meaning they had almost no deformation) so I didn't replace them.
↑The replaced spoke
The deformation was mainly lateral, not front-to-back,
Before it bent, it was straight (←obviously)
The deformation looks like this.
With simple lateral bending, just bowing in one direction,
I sometimes hand-correct and reuse it,
but when it's kinked and twisted like this, I definitely replace it.