Nomu Lab Diary

Replaced the muddy holy grail's axle with something modern (front part but also the back part)

Another day, another wheel (etc. etc.).
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Continuing from the other day's Grail rim rear wheel rebuild.

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HB-CX75 28H black CX-RAY 4x reverse Italian lacing.
The rim was 2014 manufacture, same as the rear wheel.
As for the hub's vintage, the identifying seal had been removed,
and separately, there might be a manufacturing date stamp engraved
near the laser marking on the HB/FH-CX75,
but on the opposite side of the SHIMANO marking
there's a sticker unrelated to Shimano stuck on,
so I couldn't make it out.

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Built it up.

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HB-R470 28H
Transplanting inpokes to inpokes and outpokes to outpokes,
laced in the same 4x reverse Italian pattern as before.
Reused the nipples too.
When I released the tension, there were a couple of spokes
bent left-right as if they'd been struck from the side,
but unlike permanent deformation in the front-back direction,
they were pretty much correctable to the eye just by hand bending
(if I were to strip this wheel again,
I don't think I'd be able to tell which ones I'd fixed),
so I'm reusing all the spokes.

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