Another wheel day (and so on).
A customer brought in a 3T rear wheel for me to work on.
Standard straight-spoke hub, 24 holes.
All black CX-RAY straight, force-cross laced on both sides, 2-cross pattern.
It doesn't have the originality of something like Mercurio (→here),
but it's superior in terms of repairability.
Well, superior or just normal, I suppose.
Also, there were about six past posts I could link to regarding Mercurio,
so I picked the one where I wrote the most outrageous stuff.
The model name is apparently Orbis 2, but whatever.
The rim cosmetics aren't printed like on Mercurio—they're just stickers.
Setting that aside, you—this is basically the same rim as the Nomu Lab Wheel No. 7, right?
This rim maker faithfully adheres to the principle of "not supplying the same spec to two or more places,"
but compared to the Nomu Lab Wheel No. 7 rim, the only differences are
that this one has internal nipples and the rim hump protrusions are lower.
Everything else—rim height and rim width—is identical.
Brought a friend along!
From top to bottom in the image: 3T Orbis 2,
Fulcrum Racing Zero Carbon,
Reynolds Assault.
All of these are rims that can't be built into wheels anymore in the future,
so there's no problem exposing their serial numbers here.
As for the Racing Zero Carbon rim,
there's currently one that looks completely identical
made by a different manufacturer that I can't even distinguish from the original.
The reason for the repair was that brake heat combined with buckling
caused the rim's bead hook to spread open,
so the customer wanted me to rebuild it with a different rim.
The rim deformation was hard to see in photos alone,
so I put tape on it to show it.
For comparison, here's a photo of a section with no issues.
Unrelated to this case, but
we currently have many rims on hand here that have no holes on the outer edge except for the valve hole.
Some of them are Light Bicycle brand rims,
though some are unmarked.
The rim the customer brought to use for this rim replacement
is one that does have markings.
This rim has the same rim height as the original 3T—the 3T brand's original rim,
but since "no holes on the outer edge = internal nipples not possible,"
it's a rim where I use universal nipples and call them up with a magnet for assembly.
The original rim uses internal nipples.
The spoke length gets shorter, but
after cutting it, it was just short enough to be reusable,
so I reused them and built the wheel.
The left-right difference in spoke deformation is significant,
but that's pretty normal.
Since the original wheel had internal nipples, it was tensioned extremely tight,
and just getting it to about the same tension level was a struggle.
I didn't do the final cross lacing.
Therefore, spoke tying is out of the question—I couldn't do it anyway.
This was discussed with the customer beforehand.
A customer brought in a 3T rear wheel for me to work on.
Standard straight-spoke hub, 24 holes.
All black CX-RAY straight, force-cross laced on both sides, 2-cross pattern.
It doesn't have the originality of something like Mercurio (→here),
but it's superior in terms of repairability.
Well, superior or just normal, I suppose.
so I picked the one where I wrote the most outrageous stuff.
The model name is apparently Orbis 2, but whatever.
The rim cosmetics aren't printed like on Mercurio—they're just stickers.
Setting that aside, you—this is basically the same rim as the Nomu Lab Wheel No. 7, right?
This rim maker faithfully adheres to the principle of "not supplying the same spec to two or more places,"
but compared to the Nomu Lab Wheel No. 7 rim, the only differences are
that this one has internal nipples and the rim hump protrusions are lower.
Everything else—rim height and rim width—is identical.
Brought a friend along!
From top to bottom in the image: 3T Orbis 2,
Fulcrum Racing Zero Carbon,
Reynolds Assault.
All of these are rims that can't be built into wheels anymore in the future,
so there's no problem exposing their serial numbers here.
As for the Racing Zero Carbon rim,
there's currently one that looks completely identical
made by a different manufacturer that I can't even distinguish from the original.
The reason for the repair was that brake heat combined with buckling
caused the rim's bead hook to spread open,
so the customer wanted me to rebuild it with a different rim.
The rim deformation was hard to see in photos alone,
so I put tape on it to show it.
For comparison, here's a photo of a section with no issues.
Unrelated to this case, but
we currently have many rims on hand here that have no holes on the outer edge except for the valve hole.
Some of them are Light Bicycle brand rims,
though some are unmarked.
The rim the customer brought to use for this rim replacement
is one that does have markings.
This rim has the same rim height as the original 3T—the 3T brand's original rim,
but since "no holes on the outer edge = internal nipples not possible,"
it's a rim where I use universal nipples and call them up with a magnet for assembly.
The original rim uses internal nipples.
The spoke length gets shorter, but
after cutting it, it was just short enough to be reusable,
so I reused them and built the wheel.
The left-right difference in spoke deformation is significant,
but that's pretty normal.
Since the original wheel had internal nipples, it was tensioned extremely tight,
and just getting it to about the same tension level was a struggle.
I didn't do the final cross lacing.
Therefore, spoke tying is out of the question—I couldn't do it anyway.
This was discussed with the customer beforehand.