{"id":1512,"date":"2009-05-02T00:52:51","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T05:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=1512"},"modified":"2009-05-02T00:57:39","modified_gmt":"2009-05-02T05:57:39","slug":"nipples-replaced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/02\/nipples-replaced\/","title":{"rendered":"Nipples: Replaced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=1>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/stuffivemade\/IMG_3526.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/82534-2\/IMG_3526.jpg\" height=427 width=640 border=0 alt=\"One of the Wheelpro-design feeler gauges and stand being used to true a rear wheel which had its nipples replaced.\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>After four and a half hours (or so) of work, all of the alloy nipples in my geared bike&#8217;s rear wheel have been replaced. While the wheel is pretty true (maybe 0.5mm out at the largest spot) the dishing is still about 5mm off, so I&#8217;ll have to do more playing another day.<\/p>\n<p>Also, that image above shows one of the feeler gauges recommended in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wheelpro.co.uk\/wheelbuilding\/book.php\">Wheelpro Book<\/a>. It seems to work pretty well, although I do need to get better at using it. I imagine that will take quite some time.<\/p>\n<p>(I also must fix the damned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parktool.com\/products\/detail.asp?cat=16&#038;item=SW-40\">Park SW-40<\/a> spoke wrench. Its got a nice head on it, but the curved handle part bends too far over the head, so when the spoke comes off of the nipple at a slight angle the tool gets stuck in place.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After four and a half hours (or so) of work, all of the alloy nipples in my geared bike&#8217;s rear wheel have been replaced. While&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/02\/nipples-replaced\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nipples: Replaced<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-making-things","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1512"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1515,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions\/1515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}