Another day of wheel work (and so on).
I received a ZIPP 303 rear wheel from a customer.
It's from an era with a silver hub shell where
converting to 11-speed via freehub body swap isn't possible,
so the customer wants to upgrade to 11-speed by replacing the hub.
Thread-locking compound and fine grit were
packed into the nipple threads,
but I managed to loosen them.
Both left and right flanges use the "hook" style rather than "through" style,
so after loosening the nipples by about half a wheel rotation,
I can shake the hub left and right to
pull it out from the wheel.
The width of the flat-sided straight spokes
is smaller than the diameter of the rim's inner holes,
so the spokes can be pulled out on the outside of the rim.
Because of this, when disassembling this wheel,
I didn't have to fully loosen a single nipple or separate any spokes.
Got it built.
660 hub, 24H, half-competition 4-cross lacing.
I'll do the spoke squaring later.
I received a ZIPP 303 rear wheel from a customer.
It's from an era with a silver hub shell where
converting to 11-speed via freehub body swap isn't possible,
so the customer wants to upgrade to 11-speed by replacing the hub.
Thread-locking compound and fine grit were
packed into the nipple threads,
but I managed to loosen them.
Both left and right flanges use the "hook" style rather than "through" style,
so after loosening the nipples by about half a wheel rotation,
I can shake the hub left and right to
pull it out from the wheel.
The width of the flat-sided straight spokes
is smaller than the diameter of the rim's inner holes,
so the spokes can be pulled out on the outside of the rim.
Because of this, when disassembling this wheel,
I didn't have to fully loosen a single nipple or separate any spokes.
Got it built.
660 hub, 24H, half-competition 4-cross lacing.
I'll do the spoke squaring later.