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Winterfield's first project (400/4)
PHILIP2908:
Hi,
Great rebuild story and look forward to each episode.
Looks as though you are lucky to have a good & dry garage to do your rebuild in. The only advice I can offer is to get some cheapo white emulsion from B&Q and throw it on the walls - with any available light now multiplied, the difference this makes is amazing.
Keep it up !!
Phil @ Cheltenham
Winterfield:
So, Christmas arrived (way back in May). Tyres, rims, stanchions, handlebars and some other little bits.
So the wheel building begins. After reading up on various websites, I decided that it would be a good idea to build my own wheels. It went OK. I got the lacing wrong the first time around - I think the method I ended up using was to put in all the spokes for one direction, then spun the hub to tighten the spokes so only the threads are showing through the hub. Then it was simple to see where the other side's spokes go from the hub to the rim.
First attempt: I tried lacing opposing spokes. This ended up with some spokes poking out way too far.
Second attempt went much better:
Same with the rear wheels, with new hub (with thanks to Davelu88) all polished up.
Tightened up the spokes and trued it with a cheap trueing stand. Plenty of other folks more qualified than me to explain the best way to do this - there are lots of good resources online.
And finally, with the tyres fitted (by a local tyre fitter):
Moorey:
Nice to see someone building their own wheels. :)
Winterfield:
Time will tell whether it was a good idea or not. I'm quite concerned about whether I tightened the spokes up enough/too much. I opted not to use a spoke torque wrench when building them, partly because of the expense of buying one. But also because many of the wheel building sites I was reading said that doing it by sound and feel was accurate enough.
Winterfield:
Next up was the frame. I opted to have this professionally done here in Edinburgh. They blasted it, and painted it gloss black.
Before:
After:
The only thing that really irked me about the job they did was that there is some grit from the blasting which wasn't cleaned out of the frame properly. This ended up under the paint. He said that they'd found this once after priming, stripped it back, cleaned it out again, then it happened again. At which point they presumably gave up and painted over it.
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