Another day of wheel building (and so on).
I built a wheel using a 7800 hub.
I forgot to photograph the hub itself, so here's the finished wheel right away.
The nostalgic 10-speed-specific freebody.
Back then, I might have believed this was the best solution,
but it turned out to be nothing more than a fleeting idea, and because of it
I've had to keep inserting 1mm low spacers into every freebody
before and after this one ever since.
Since low spacers can't be made from aluminum for technical reasons,
I've been stuck dragging along the weight penalty of using
iron spacers that are 1mm thick sandwiched between sprockets.
Though all that's beside the point regarding this particular freebody.
Full competition build with wiring lacing.
I have so much work other than wheel building
that I've already exceeded my personal capacity.
And on top of that, there's wheel building too.
Depending on how I approach it, I could probably be somewhat more efficient,
but either way it's clear I'd exceed that expanded capacity too.
Even if I were to set public days off at three days a week and dedicate the other days to shop work,
local customers would still come by to look in,
and if there's a genuinely urgent matter, I can't very well refuse to help.
So the conclusion I've come to is that even adding more closed days won't change the situation.
I built a wheel using a 7800 hub.
I forgot to photograph the hub itself, so here's the finished wheel right away.
The nostalgic 10-speed-specific freebody.
Back then, I might have believed this was the best solution,
but it turned out to be nothing more than a fleeting idea, and because of it
I've had to keep inserting 1mm low spacers into every freebody
before and after this one ever since.
Since low spacers can't be made from aluminum for technical reasons,
I've been stuck dragging along the weight penalty of using
iron spacers that are 1mm thick sandwiched between sprockets.
Though all that's beside the point regarding this particular freebody.
Full competition build with wiring lacing.
I have so much work other than wheel building
that I've already exceeded my personal capacity.
And on top of that, there's wheel building too.
Depending on how I approach it, I could probably be somewhat more efficient,
but either way it's clear I'd exceed that expanded capacity too.
Even if I were to set public days off at three days a week and dedicate the other days to shop work,
local customers would still come by to look in,
and if there's a genuinely urgent matter, I can't very well refuse to help.
So the conclusion I've come to is that even adding more closed days won't change the situation.