Following up from the rear wheel the other day.
A customer dropped off a front wheel built with an XR200 rim.
Novatech 291 hub, 20H, Pillar key slot black aero spokes
Outpoke radial lacing.
This one's also getting rebuilt with an AL22W rim, but
since I can't just migrate the rim over,
I decided to completely disassemble it.
I know it might look like I'm just making excuses to say "building wheels again today (and so on)" but there actually are other reasons.
Same as I did with the rear wheel—
I'm not reusing the original 14mm black aluminum nipples.
Switching to DT 12mm black aluminum instead.
I wash the hub after removing the spokes.
As for the spokes, I need to cut about 0.5mm off,
so I'm doing a complete wheel disassembly.
With a 0.5mm cut, some spokes end up needing it while others don't—
that's due to spoke length variation.
Spokes that I've cut here at the shop show less radial runout
at the pre-assembly stage.
Weighing the wheel build time saved against
the time spent cutting spokes is borderline,
but there's a decisive difference
when it comes to whether I can claim "building wheels again today (and so on)".
So, building wheels again today (and so on).
Built the front wheel with an AL22W rim.
The lacing pattern is the same as the original.
A customer dropped off a front wheel built with an XR200 rim.
Novatech 291 hub, 20H, Pillar key slot black aero spokes
Outpoke radial lacing.
This one's also getting rebuilt with an AL22W rim, but
since I can't just migrate the rim over,
I decided to completely disassemble it.
I know it might look like I'm just making excuses to say "building wheels again today (and so on)" but there actually are other reasons.
Same as I did with the rear wheel—
I'm not reusing the original 14mm black aluminum nipples.
Switching to DT 12mm black aluminum instead.
I wash the hub after removing the spokes.
As for the spokes, I need to cut about 0.5mm off,
so I'm doing a complete wheel disassembly.
With a 0.5mm cut, some spokes end up needing it while others don't—
that's due to spoke length variation.
Spokes that I've cut here at the shop show less radial runout
at the pre-assembly stage.
Weighing the wheel build time saved against
the time spent cutting spokes is borderline,
but there's a decisive difference
when it comes to whether I can claim "building wheels again today (and so on)".
So, building wheels again today (and so on).
Built the front wheel with an AL22W rim.
The lacing pattern is the same as the original.