Another day, another wheel (and so on).
A customer brought in a rear wheel from a Mercury (brand) S3 wheelset for me to work on.
The rim is from the same manufacturer as the Nomu Lab Wheel No. 2 and others,
and the hub is a Novatec 482SL with the Mercury brand name on it,
so it's the same as the Tni Evolite hub.
It's a tubular rim with a 30mm rim height,
and the rim width (since tubular rims don't have an inner width,
the outer width is what matters) is 25mm—
even by today's standards it's classified as a wide rim,
but based on the serial number on the rim, it's clearly from 2012,
so when it was made it was quite a wide rim indeed.
It was built all-black in a complete 4-cross pattern,
but the customer wanted me to rebuild it a bit tighter and more rigid.
↑Non-freewheel side straight spoke
↑Non-freewheel side reverse spoke
On the non-freewheel side, if I cut them back about 2mm,
they'd work as spare spokes for the freewheel side,
so this time I carefully disassembled everything and returned them to the customer.
The straight spokes and reverse spokes deform differently at the neck.
If I were to reuse them as freewheel-side spokes,
I think it's better to use the original straight spokes as straight spokes and the original reverse spokes as reverse spokes,
though I suppose it's technically possible to use an original reverse spoke as a straight spoke.
But I'd avoid doing it the other way around.
I could convert it to a half-cross pattern without loosening the freewheel-side nipples,
but while I was disassembling the non-freewheel side,
I found sand jammed in the threads of the nipples,
and I wanted to take measures to reduce friction between the nipples and the rim,
so I did a complete teardown and rebuild.
Definitely not because today was just another wheel (and so on). situation. Not at all.
Done.
24-hole black half-cross 4-6 pattern laced. The original black aluminum nipples have a design that can be turned from the outer edge as well,
and while they're not Squorx nipples,
the contact surface shape with the rim is quite similar,
which worked out nicely, so I reused them.
A customer brought in a rear wheel from a Mercury (brand) S3 wheelset for me to work on.
The rim is from the same manufacturer as the Nomu Lab Wheel No. 2 and others,
and the hub is a Novatec 482SL with the Mercury brand name on it,
so it's the same as the Tni Evolite hub.
It's a tubular rim with a 30mm rim height,
and the rim width (since tubular rims don't have an inner width,
the outer width is what matters) is 25mm—
even by today's standards it's classified as a wide rim,
but based on the serial number on the rim, it's clearly from 2012,
so when it was made it was quite a wide rim indeed.
It was built all-black in a complete 4-cross pattern,
but the customer wanted me to rebuild it a bit tighter and more rigid.
↑Non-freewheel side straight spoke
↑Non-freewheel side reverse spoke
On the non-freewheel side, if I cut them back about 2mm,
they'd work as spare spokes for the freewheel side,
so this time I carefully disassembled everything and returned them to the customer.
The straight spokes and reverse spokes deform differently at the neck.
If I were to reuse them as freewheel-side spokes,
I think it's better to use the original straight spokes as straight spokes and the original reverse spokes as reverse spokes,
though I suppose it's technically possible to use an original reverse spoke as a straight spoke.
But I'd avoid doing it the other way around.
I could convert it to a half-cross pattern without loosening the freewheel-side nipples,
but while I was disassembling the non-freewheel side,
I found sand jammed in the threads of the nipples,
and I wanted to take measures to reduce friction between the nipples and the rim,
so I did a complete teardown and rebuild.
Definitely not because today was just another wheel (and so on). situation. Not at all.
Done.
24-hole black half-cross 4-6 pattern laced. The original black aluminum nipples have a design that can be turned from the outer edge as well,
and while they're not Squorx nipples,
the contact surface shape with the rim is quite similar,
which worked out nicely, so I reused them.