Wheels again today (and so on).
A customer brought me a
small-diameter rim with a wide rim width.
Apparently several shops had turned down
the wheel building work.
The precision at the seam was poor, and this remained an issue throughout.
The hub came with the spokes threaded through it
in this condition when I received it.
I asked if the spoke length was correct,
and apparently they had disassembled the original wheel's
hub and rim to repaint them,
so there's no reason the spokes shouldn't work at this length.
Given that it was left-handed dished
and also a 6-bolt disc brake rotor hub,
I decided to build it with reverse Italian lacing.
With 36 holes I thought it might be 6-cross,
but in the very early stages of truing
the hub wasn't centered on the wheel,
which told me the original was 4-cross.
On the disc rotor side of the hub,
where the spokes had been resting for a long time,
the paint was chipped.
This was the case when I received it, just to be clear.
There were about two more spots like that.
The spokes are #12 plain (2.6mm diameter).
The rim's paint finish also looked fragile,
so when I was truing the wheel
I was concerned that the spoke threads might scratch the rim,
so I tried to remove the spokes from the hub,
but they wouldn't come out easily,
so instead I kept them parallel to the hub axle
（with the spokes not hanging down from the hub flange）
while I trued the wheel.
It's built.
36H four-cross reverse Italian lacing.
I'm not sure if the original wheel was laced through to the final cross,
but the rim holes have huge radial offset,
allowing the lacing to work easily even on this small-diameter rim,
so I laced it through.
A customer brought me a
small-diameter rim with a wide rim width.
Apparently several shops had turned down
the wheel building work.
The precision at the seam was poor, and this remained an issue throughout.
The hub came with the spokes threaded through it
in this condition when I received it.
I asked if the spoke length was correct,
and apparently they had disassembled the original wheel's
hub and rim to repaint them,
so there's no reason the spokes shouldn't work at this length.
Given that it was left-handed dished
and also a 6-bolt disc brake rotor hub,
I decided to build it with reverse Italian lacing.
With 36 holes I thought it might be 6-cross,
but in the very early stages of truing
the hub wasn't centered on the wheel,
which told me the original was 4-cross.
On the disc rotor side of the hub,
where the spokes had been resting for a long time,
the paint was chipped.
This was the case when I received it, just to be clear.
There were about two more spots like that.
The spokes are #12 plain (2.6mm diameter).
The rim's paint finish also looked fragile,
so when I was truing the wheel
I was concerned that the spoke threads might scratch the rim,
so I tried to remove the spokes from the hub,
but they wouldn't come out easily,
so instead I kept them parallel to the hub axle
（with the spokes not hanging down from the hub flange）
while I trued the wheel.
It's built.
36H four-cross reverse Italian lacing.
I'm not sure if the original wheel was laced through to the final cross,
but the rim holes have huge radial offset,
allowing the lacing to work easily even on this small-diameter rim,
so I laced it through.