Getting back in the swing...

After being off for a couple months, just went down to get back into the swing of things.  Ended up only tin foiling Ivy's rims, but still felt like a lot was accomplished.

Ivy: New Front Wheel

A long time coming, but Ivy finally gets her new front wheel: new spokes (actually 35 new, 1 old), good clean rim, new rim strip and tube, and the good IRC tire.

The stool under the engine once again makes the front wheel swap a breeze.

Ivy: Garage Truing

After getting the new rim all laced up, I took it down to mount it, but only then did I realize that I had never tightened up the spokes.  Brought the stand down to the garage and just tightened everything up and trued it again.

Ivy: Silicon Carbide Pt. 3

Finally finished all 36 holes.  Finally.

Started truing and got it from a 6mm runout / 2mm hop down to 0.4mm/1.0mm.

Ivy: Silicon Carbide Pt. 2

Continued Dremel'ing with the silicon carbide.  Used up another 4 bits.  It takes 150-200 "rotations" inside the hole to get it wide enough.

Ivy: Silicon Carbide

Silicon carbide bits seemed better, but they still wear down pretty quickly.  The one I had only lasted for 5 holes before breaking.  I ordered another 20 from Amazon.

Spares: New Front Spare

Unboxed the new front wheel that came courtesy of a Yahoo group member ($70 shipped).  Pretty decent rim and hub.  Came with a 17mm oil seal, Nachi sealed bearings and a Bridgestone "safety" tire and tube.

Oddly, the nipples seem smaller than 5mm and a few were frozen.  More concerning, though, is the fact that there seemed to very little free play in the distance collar, making it impossible to get enough of a ledge to use the screwdriver to hammer out the bearing.  Will need to figure that out...