Following up from the rear wheel the other day.
I received a front wheel built with an XR200 rim from a customer.
Novatech 291 hub, 20H, pillar slit hole black aero spokes.
Anti-spoke radial lacing.
This one also needed to be rebuilt with an AL22W rim, but since I couldn't just swap out the rim without completely disassembling it, I decided to take it completely apart.
I'll probably be accused of just wanting to say "wheel work again (and so on)" today, but there are actually other reasons.
Like I did with the rear wheel, I'm not reusing the original 14mm black aluminum nipples.
I'm switching to DT 12mm black aluminum ones.
I clean the hub after removing the spokes.
As for the spokes, I want to cut about 0.5mm, so I'm completely disassembling the wheel.
With a cut of about 0.5mm, some spokes will cut and others won't, which is due to spoke length variation.
Spokes that I cut to length in the shop have less radial runout at the preliminary assembly stage.
When I weigh the time saved during wheel building against the time to cut the spokes, it's unclear whether I'm actually saving time overall, but there's a decisive difference in whether I can claim "wheel work again (and so on)" today.
So, wheel work again (and so on).
I built the front wheel with the AL22W rim.
The lacing pattern is the same as the original configuration.
I received a front wheel built with an XR200 rim from a customer.
Novatech 291 hub, 20H, pillar slit hole black aero spokes.
Anti-spoke radial lacing.
This one also needed to be rebuilt with an AL22W rim, but since I couldn't just swap out the rim without completely disassembling it, I decided to take it completely apart.
I'll probably be accused of just wanting to say "wheel work again (and so on)" today, but there are actually other reasons.
Like I did with the rear wheel, I'm not reusing the original 14mm black aluminum nipples.
I'm switching to DT 12mm black aluminum ones.
I clean the hub after removing the spokes.
As for the spokes, I want to cut about 0.5mm, so I'm completely disassembling the wheel.
With a cut of about 0.5mm, some spokes will cut and others won't, which is due to spoke length variation.
Spokes that I cut to length in the shop have less radial runout at the preliminary assembly stage.
When I weigh the time saved during wheel building against the time to cut the spokes, it's unclear whether I'm actually saving time overall, but there's a decisive difference in whether I can claim "wheel work again (and so on)" today.
So, wheel work again (and so on).
I built the front wheel with the AL22W rim.
The lacing pattern is the same as the original configuration.