Replaced the muddy holy grail's axle with a modern one (Front part even though it's the back part)

Another day on the workbench (and so on).
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Continuing from the other day's Grail rear wheel rebuild.

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HB-CX75 28H black CX-RAY "4-4 reverse Italian" lacing.
Like the rear wheel, the rim was manufactured in 2014.
As for the hub's year of manufacture, the seal that would be a clue has been removed,
and there might be a manufacturing date stamp near the laser etching of HB/FH-CX75,
but on the opposite side from the SHIMANO marking
there's a sticker unrelated to Shimano pasted over it,
so I couldn't determine the year.

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Got it built up.

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HB-R470 28H
Regular spokes go to regular spoke positions, and trailing spokes to trailing spoke positions—I rebuilt it with the same "4-4 reverse Italian" lacing as the original.
Reused the nipples too.
When I released the tension, there were a couple of spokes that had bent left and right, like they'd been hit from the side,
but unlike permanent deformation in the fore-aft direction,
I was able to straighten them out pretty well by hand visually
(if I were to disassemble this wheel again,
I don't think I'd be able to tell which ones I'd corrected),
so I'm reusing all the spokes.

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