Another day working on wheels (and so on).
A customer brought in a wheel with a 6600 Ultegra hub and DT RR1.2 rim.
When DT started selling rims as individual products,
they began with the "RR1.1" (equivalent to the current RR415) and
the "RR1.2" (equivalent to the RR585).
So this is technically the same rim as the current RR585,
but the adhesive strength on the sticker seems different—there's no peeling
or lifting at the edges like you sometimes see.
In my opinion, this sticker design looks cooler anyway.
I didn't ask what happened (it's not necessary information for the rebuild),
but I suspect the reason for the wheel rebuild was this broken spoke on the front wheel.
It's not a spoke head break or a fracture at the threads—the break is somewhere in between.
The nipple was left inside the rim.
↑The spoke is clearly too short.
That's probably not unrelated to the nipple loosening and dropping inside the rim.
Either way, I'm taking it apart, so it doesn't matter now.
I took it apart.
The customer asked me to clean the hub, so
I cleaned it.
I'd do it anyway even if they didn't ask.
Nothing was said about the rim, but
I polished the braking surface,
(in the picture above, the left side of the rim looks shiny because of the light—well, and because I polished it)
then washed it
and dried it.
It didn't come out like new, but I think it got pretty clean.
N-not that I cleaned the rim because someone brought me Tokyo Banana snacks or anything!////
No, really, I'm very grateful.
I appreciate it, but I'm not good with receiving favors,
so I'd really prefer if you didn't bring gifts and such.
I'm joking around in what I wrote above, but work quality and deadlines are unaffected by any of this.
Built it up.
I'm using the RR1.2 for another job.
I went with an XR300 rim for this one.
Spokes are Wheelsmith Competition (all-brass) for both wheels.
The rear wheel is 48-spoke lacing with anti-freewheel-side cross-lacing,
and the front wheel is
radial lacing.
From the specifications they requested, it seems they read this blog pretty regularly.
And one more thing I always write about and have become a template for me:
shiny silver hubs really are something special.
A customer brought in a wheel with a 6600 Ultegra hub and DT RR1.2 rim.
When DT started selling rims as individual products,
they began with the "RR1.1" (equivalent to the current RR415) and
the "RR1.2" (equivalent to the RR585).
So this is technically the same rim as the current RR585,
but the adhesive strength on the sticker seems different—there's no peeling
or lifting at the edges like you sometimes see.
In my opinion, this sticker design looks cooler anyway.
I didn't ask what happened (it's not necessary information for the rebuild),
but I suspect the reason for the wheel rebuild was this broken spoke on the front wheel.
It's not a spoke head break or a fracture at the threads—the break is somewhere in between.
The nipple was left inside the rim.
↑The spoke is clearly too short.
That's probably not unrelated to the nipple loosening and dropping inside the rim.
Either way, I'm taking it apart, so it doesn't matter now.
I took it apart.
The customer asked me to clean the hub, so
I cleaned it.
I'd do it anyway even if they didn't ask.
Nothing was said about the rim, but
I polished the braking surface,
(in the picture above, the left side of the rim looks shiny because of the light—well, and because I polished it)
then washed it
and dried it.
It didn't come out like new, but I think it got pretty clean.
N-not that I cleaned the rim because someone brought me Tokyo Banana snacks or anything!////
No, really, I'm very grateful.
I appreciate it, but I'm not good with receiving favors,
so I'd really prefer if you didn't bring gifts and such.
I'm joking around in what I wrote above, but work quality and deadlines are unaffected by any of this.
Built it up.
I'm using the RR1.2 for another job.
I went with an XR300 rim for this one.
Spokes are Wheelsmith Competition (all-brass) for both wheels.
The rear wheel is 48-spoke lacing with anti-freewheel-side cross-lacing,
and the front wheel is
radial lacing.
From the specifications they requested, it seems they read this blog pretty regularly.
And one more thing I always write about and have become a template for me:
shiny silver hubs really are something special.