Another wheel day (long story).
I took in a rear wheel built with a WO rim from a customer, branded Formosa(Chinese carbon rebranded).
Formosa is the old Portuguese name for Taiwan,
and in kanji it's sometimes written as "Bǎiliǎi Island" (beautiful island).
It's got an Industry Nine Torch hub, 32H with pillar-style round butted spokes
in a 4/4 Italian cross pattern, but
it's way too loose, so they want it rebuilt.
Since the customer knows someone with a Nôm Lab wheel
and has borrowed one before, they understood without explanation
pretty much what rebuilding would entail.
I thought about reusing the four pillar spokes from the freehub side as-is,
but they reacted only barely to the strong magnet that lifts CX-RAY bundles—
stainless steel that wouldn't even lift a single spoke—
so I decided to go with DT Comps instead.
Another reason was that the spoke length was on the short side.
The rim is off to the left—whether that was original
or happened from half-hearted truing, who knows.
Doesn't matter anyway since I'm taking it apart.
As usual, I left four nipples completely untightened as a reference.
It's not just short spokes—they were being lazy using the same length spokes for both sides.
The image above shows the non-freehub side, and the length falls short.
For a WO rim to have rim cement on it means they were using it as threadlocker. I hate this.
It's built.
32H, half-comp 4/6 cross pattern with radial lacing.
I took in a rear wheel built with a WO rim from a customer, branded Formosa
Formosa is the old Portuguese name for Taiwan,
and in kanji it's sometimes written as "Bǎiliǎi Island" (beautiful island).
It's got an Industry Nine Torch hub, 32H with pillar-style round butted spokes
in a 4/4 Italian cross pattern, but
it's way too loose, so they want it rebuilt.
Since the customer knows someone with a Nôm Lab wheel
and has borrowed one before, they understood without explanation
pretty much what rebuilding would entail.
I thought about reusing the four pillar spokes from the freehub side as-is,
but they reacted only barely to the strong magnet that lifts CX-RAY bundles—
stainless steel that wouldn't even lift a single spoke—
so I decided to go with DT Comps instead.
Another reason was that the spoke length was on the short side.
The rim is off to the left—whether that was original
or happened from half-hearted truing, who knows.
Doesn't matter anyway since I'm taking it apart.
As usual, I left four nipples completely untightened as a reference.
It's not just short spokes—they were being lazy using the same length spokes for both sides.
The image above shows the non-freehub side, and the length falls short.
For a WO rim to have rim cement on it means they were using it as threadlocker. I hate this.
It's built.
32H, half-comp 4/6 cross pattern with radial lacing.