Another day of wheelbuilding (and so on).
Continuing from yesterday.
After bringing the spoke tension down sufficiently and cutting the spokes,
we removed the PowerTap hub from the
ZIPP 303 rim,
and the customer wants a rear wheel built with this rim and
a different hub that's not a PowerTap.
The non-freebody side was laced, so
the spoke path marks remain.
The reason we cut close to the hub
is to prevent short spoke pieces from falling inside the rim.
We peeled off the old Corsa CX that was taped with tubular tape.
This is unrelated to this wheel, but
without writing an article about it,
a while back with the Nomu Lab Wheel #2,
when I used a WO rim tire lever
to pry between the tubular tire and rim to remove it,
the leverage must have worked because a crack formed
on the outer edge of the rim, and
the brake zone also puffed out slightly on one side, so
I took the wheel to see if we could somehow repair it.
We filled the crack with instant adhesive and primer,
and the rim side bulge that was initially detected with a straightedge
we carefully sanded flat
and repaired it. This was about three weeks ago, but
when I called the customer today to check,
they said that even when riding with the brake lightly applied,
they couldn't feel the rim bulge,
and it's been working without any discomfort.
And during that repair work,
we gave the customer the tubular tire-specific
tire lever that our shop was using (secondhand),
so we no longer had one for our own use, so
we restocked.
This is from the MOST brand of Pinarello's parts line,
and I've never seen
"the same tool sold by the OEM without the MOST branding"
or anything like that—as far as I know,
this is the only tool of its kind that exists.
We introduced it about five years ago (→here),
and at that time it was already listed as limited stock, but
the wholesaler had 929 units in inventory, so
we only introduced it without ordering,
but when I checked yesterday there were only 27 left, so
we ordered the entire stock.
We put one aside for our shop, so 26 remain.
As far as I know, there's no more useful tubular tire-specific lever than this,
so if you want one, get it soon!
Anyway, it's built.
The Evolight hub 24-hole, half-comp, fully laced with spoke wrapping,
that the customer left with us
has sprocket mounting marks on the freebody.
Continuing from yesterday.
After bringing the spoke tension down sufficiently and cutting the spokes,
we removed the PowerTap hub from the
ZIPP 303 rim,
and the customer wants a rear wheel built with this rim and
a different hub that's not a PowerTap.
The non-freebody side was laced, so
the spoke path marks remain.
The reason we cut close to the hub
is to prevent short spoke pieces from falling inside the rim.
We peeled off the old Corsa CX that was taped with tubular tape.
This is unrelated to this wheel, but
without writing an article about it,
a while back with the Nomu Lab Wheel #2,
when I used a WO rim tire lever
to pry between the tubular tire and rim to remove it,
the leverage must have worked because a crack formed
on the outer edge of the rim, and
the brake zone also puffed out slightly on one side, so
I took the wheel to see if we could somehow repair it.
We filled the crack with instant adhesive and primer,
and the rim side bulge that was initially detected with a straightedge
we carefully sanded flat
and repaired it. This was about three weeks ago, but
when I called the customer today to check,
they said that even when riding with the brake lightly applied,
they couldn't feel the rim bulge,
and it's been working without any discomfort.
And during that repair work,
we gave the customer the tubular tire-specific
tire lever that our shop was using (secondhand),
so we no longer had one for our own use, so
we restocked.
This is from the MOST brand of Pinarello's parts line,
and I've never seen
"the same tool sold by the OEM without the MOST branding"
or anything like that—as far as I know,
this is the only tool of its kind that exists.
We introduced it about five years ago (→here),
and at that time it was already listed as limited stock, but
the wholesaler had 929 units in inventory, so
we only introduced it without ordering,
but when I checked yesterday there were only 27 left, so
we ordered the entire stock.
We put one aside for our shop, so 26 remain.
As far as I know, there's no more useful tubular tire-specific lever than this,
so if you want one, get it soon!
Anyway, it's built.
The Evolight hub 24-hole, half-comp, fully laced with spoke wrapping,
that the customer left with us
has sprocket mounting marks on the freebody.