Another day, another wheel (and so on).
Continuing from yesterday.
I'm rebuilding the rear wheel that was laced with the same rim as the front,
but this one is more or less the main event.
Evo hub, 24H, full race 40/40 lacing.
Whether it was loose to begin with or sagged over time,
the freewheel side is a bit slack,
and the non-freewheel side with radial lacing is right on the edge of acceptable tension for a functional wheel.
The front wheel rim's manufacturing and shipping dates
could be estimated from the sticker as both 2011,
but this rim's dates were both 2009.
The reason I was concerned about the spoke length on the front wheel
was because I wanted to reuse the spokes from the freewheel side of the rear wheel.
I wouldn't claim my calculated spoke length is "absolutely correct,"
but if they're too short, I can't reuse them.
I wanted to know at the front wheel stage whether the builder's thinking about spoke length was close to mine.
As it turned out, the front wheel's spoke length was
the same as my calculated length (within 1mm),
and the rear wheel's freewheel-side spoke length was
about 1mm longer than my calculation.
This seems to be a difference in how the internal nipple's plus correction value is interpreted,
rather than a fundamental difference in spoke length thinking.
I'm not cutting the freewheel-side spokes by 1mm—
I'm just reusing them as-is.
I'm going to swap out only the non-freewheel side for CX-RAY,
and like with the front wheel, I'm doing a full teardown because
I don't like the nipples being used.
I pulled out just one spoke to check the length,
but since I wanted to maintain the original spoke and counter-spoke pattern,
I'm cleaning with the spokes still threaded through the freewheel-side flanges.
The freewheel body on this hub
was originally likely a 3-pawl Shimano 10-speed type,
but it's been upgraded to a 4-pawl Shimano 11-speed type.
Rebuilt.
Evo hub, 24H, semi-race 46/40 lacing with crossing.
Continuing from yesterday.
I'm rebuilding the rear wheel that was laced with the same rim as the front,
but this one is more or less the main event.
Evo hub, 24H, full race 40/40 lacing.
Whether it was loose to begin with or sagged over time,
the freewheel side is a bit slack,
and the non-freewheel side with radial lacing is right on the edge of acceptable tension for a functional wheel.
The front wheel rim's manufacturing and shipping dates
could be estimated from the sticker as both 2011,
but this rim's dates were both 2009.
The reason I was concerned about the spoke length on the front wheel
was because I wanted to reuse the spokes from the freewheel side of the rear wheel.
I wouldn't claim my calculated spoke length is "absolutely correct,"
but if they're too short, I can't reuse them.
I wanted to know at the front wheel stage whether the builder's thinking about spoke length was close to mine.
As it turned out, the front wheel's spoke length was
the same as my calculated length (within 1mm),
and the rear wheel's freewheel-side spoke length was
about 1mm longer than my calculation.
This seems to be a difference in how the internal nipple's plus correction value is interpreted,
rather than a fundamental difference in spoke length thinking.
I'm not cutting the freewheel-side spokes by 1mm—
I'm just reusing them as-is.
I'm going to swap out only the non-freewheel side for CX-RAY,
and like with the front wheel, I'm doing a full teardown because
I don't like the nipples being used.
I pulled out just one spoke to check the length,
but since I wanted to maintain the original spoke and counter-spoke pattern,
I'm cleaning with the spokes still threaded through the freewheel-side flanges.
The freewheel body on this hub
was originally likely a 3-pawl Shimano 10-speed type,
but it's been upgraded to a 4-pawl Shimano 11-speed type.
Rebuilt.
Evo hub, 24H, semi-race 46/40 lacing with crossing.