Another wheel day (and so on).
A customer brought me a wheel we'd built for them previously.
The rim is a Passenti Brevé,
and the hub is a Chris King R45
32H, fully comp laced Italian style.
There's visible wear in the brake zone.
Separately, they've brought a new identical rim,
and they want me to build front and rear wheels with a Filwood hub,
but they specifically want the new front wheel built with the new rim.
That part alone wouldn't affect the original front wheel, but
if possible, they'd like me to reuse the spokes.
Apart from the nipples, reusing spokes is
something I was planning to do anyway, regardless of the customer's request.
The spoke length difference came to 1mm shorter by calculation.
However, the original length had rounding up at the 0.1mm decimal place,
while the new length had rounding down at the same place,
so the difference before rounding was 0.78mm.
For this reason, I was thinking of cutting 0.5mm off the spokes, but...
With the tangent lacing, the non-drive spokes
appear to have become noticeably shorter
due to the spoke shoulders bending,
so I decided cutting the non-drive spokes wasn't necessary.
I transferred the non-drive spokes from the Italian-laced
original wheel to the new rim and hub.
↑Original hub and drive spokes
↑Next hub and non-drive spokes
Non-drive spokes removed after the temporary build
Drive spokes pulled from the original hub
These I'll use with a slight trim.
Done building.
Filwood bolt-on front hub (not nut-retained) 32H
fully comp laced Italian style.
Fresh nipples throughout.
Rewinding a bit chronologically, this Filwood hub's
flange hole countersink work is pretty sloppy.
The drill bit tip lacks sharpness,
it looks kind of recessed, and it doesn't form
a proper cone relative to the hole center.
A customer brought me a wheel we'd built for them previously.
The rim is a Passenti Brevé,
and the hub is a Chris King R45
32H, fully comp laced Italian style.
There's visible wear in the brake zone.
Separately, they've brought a new identical rim,
and they want me to build front and rear wheels with a Filwood hub,
but they specifically want the new front wheel built with the new rim.
That part alone wouldn't affect the original front wheel, but
if possible, they'd like me to reuse the spokes.
Apart from the nipples, reusing spokes is
something I was planning to do anyway, regardless of the customer's request.
The spoke length difference came to 1mm shorter by calculation.
However, the original length had rounding up at the 0.1mm decimal place,
while the new length had rounding down at the same place,
so the difference before rounding was 0.78mm.
For this reason, I was thinking of cutting 0.5mm off the spokes, but...
With the tangent lacing, the non-drive spokes
appear to have become noticeably shorter
due to the spoke shoulders bending,
so I decided cutting the non-drive spokes wasn't necessary.
I transferred the non-drive spokes from the Italian-laced
original wheel to the new rim and hub.
↑Original hub and drive spokes
↑Next hub and non-drive spokes
Non-drive spokes removed after the temporary build
Drive spokes pulled from the original hub
These I'll use with a slight trim.
Done building.
Filwood bolt-on front hub (not nut-retained) 32H
fully comp laced Italian style.
Fresh nipples throughout.
Rewinding a bit chronologically, this Filwood hub's
flange hole countersink work is pretty sloppy.
The drill bit tip lacks sharpness,
it looks kind of recessed, and it doesn't form
a proper cone relative to the hole center.