Another wheel day (and so on).
A customer left me with a 38mm high tubeless carbon rim.
I built a front wheel for rim brakes.
ONYX hub, 20H, CX-RAY
Built in reverse radial spoke pattern.
There's a reason there was a gap in days since when I built the rear wheel (→here):
The ceramic bearings that came in the hub had rough, grinding rotation, so per the customer's request I swapped them out for steel ball bearings
(the image above is after the swap),
The interior of the hub body is cylindrical, and like the original BB30, it has a structure where a snap ring is fitted into a groove cut inside to serve as the bearing seat.
The plier catch portion of this snap ring was overlapping with the bearing's inner race, and standard bearing removal tools wouldn't catch it cleanly, so I made a custom tool that could remove it properly.
A customer left me with a 38mm high tubeless carbon rim.
I built a front wheel for rim brakes.
ONYX hub, 20H, CX-RAY
Built in reverse radial spoke pattern.
There's a reason there was a gap in days since when I built the rear wheel (→here):
The ceramic bearings that came in the hub had rough, grinding rotation, so per the customer's request I swapped them out for steel ball bearings
(the image above is after the swap),
The interior of the hub body is cylindrical, and like the original BB30, it has a structure where a snap ring is fitted into a groove cut inside to serve as the bearing seat.
The plier catch portion of this snap ring was overlapping with the bearing's inner race, and standard bearing removal tools wouldn't catch it cleanly, so I made a custom tool that could remove it properly.