Just got a comment saying "Congratulations on your 1st anniversary opening!"
I've been renting this shop space since July last year,
but it took 45 days (よんじゅうごにち, not しごにち) to get a phone line installed,
so it reminded me that our opening got delayed.
I mean, obviously we couldn't sign wholesale contracts without a phone number.
Anyway, the official opening day was September 28th.
To mark the occasion, I'm thinking of building something called the "nomu Lab 1st Anniversary Wheel."
Though it's already sold out.
The "nomu Lab Wheel No. 1 / 3·3·7" — a 63H wheel.
Adding multiples of holes to the outer rim of this hub carries some risk,
so I'm creating a secondary flange hole set further inward.
I needed a large-flange hub with no lightening holes,
and I selected one that meets those requirements.
↑I'm making a guide like this. A tool born solely for this purpose.
Using a punch to create an indent that guides the drill bit.
Drilling
Since I'm using outpokes, I'm adding a countersink so the spoke heads sit nicely.
From the inside, it looks like this
I'm also drilling multiples of holes on the rim side. Since the valve hole alignment overlaps,
32H × 2 = 64H, minus 1 = 63H.
From experience, I know the seam on an XR300 rim is slightly offset from directly opposite the valve hole.
So I can drill a hole here too.
The guide holes are drilled before enlarging to nipple size.
If I increase holes on the rim's outer circumference (the side where rim tape goes),
it would create strength problems,
so for the nipples going through the newly drilled holes,
I'm calling them in one by one with a magnet.
This is incredibly tedious. More annoying than the wheel building itself.
The finished product is (→here), but on this timeline,
an identical wheel has existed for about half a year already.
The reason is: half a year ago, I received this exact same wheel from my future self.
Having two wheels that are completely identical (not just in specs, but in actual existence)
might cause a time paradox or something.
So I need to hand this wheel over to my past self.
Which means I'm going to pass it on.
To be continued after "The Man Who Came from the Future" (→here)...
I've been renting this shop space since July last year,
but it took 45 days (よんじゅうごにち, not しごにち) to get a phone line installed,
so it reminded me that our opening got delayed.
I mean, obviously we couldn't sign wholesale contracts without a phone number.
Anyway, the official opening day was September 28th.
To mark the occasion, I'm thinking of building something called the "nomu Lab 1st Anniversary Wheel."
Though it's already sold out.
The "nomu Lab Wheel No. 1 / 3·3·7" — a 63H wheel.
Adding multiples of holes to the outer rim of this hub carries some risk,
so I'm creating a secondary flange hole set further inward.
I needed a large-flange hub with no lightening holes,
and I selected one that meets those requirements.
↑I'm making a guide like this. A tool born solely for this purpose.
Using a punch to create an indent that guides the drill bit.
Drilling
Since I'm using outpokes, I'm adding a countersink so the spoke heads sit nicely.
From the inside, it looks like this
I'm also drilling multiples of holes on the rim side. Since the valve hole alignment overlaps,
32H × 2 = 64H, minus 1 = 63H.
From experience, I know the seam on an XR300 rim is slightly offset from directly opposite the valve hole.
So I can drill a hole here too.
The guide holes are drilled before enlarging to nipple size.
If I increase holes on the rim's outer circumference (the side where rim tape goes),
it would create strength problems,
so for the nipples going through the newly drilled holes,
I'm calling them in one by one with a magnet.
This is incredibly tedious. More annoying than the wheel building itself.
The finished product is (→here), but on this timeline,
an identical wheel has existed for about half a year already.
The reason is: half a year ago, I received this exact same wheel from my future self.
Having two wheels that are completely identical (not just in specs, but in actual existence)
might cause a time paradox or something.
So I need to hand this wheel over to my past self.
Which means I'm going to pass it on.
To be continued after "The Man Who Came from the Future" (→here)...