After cleaning the entire wheel, cleaned and greased the front hub, the front wheel was laced and trued. Gary Quail from Santa Cruz, came up and spent a few hours with me and my family. Gary and I worked on several wheels that afternoon. Mr. Quail is so passionate about anything to do with wheels and it’s components. Like
@mr.cycleplane said, he is truly a wheel building master; awesome for me to see him do his craft. The tires are the old Carlisle Lightning Darts that Paul
@rustyjones included. I like the look of the very used tires on this project; looks like they belong on this old girl, so I will use them for now. With both wheels straight and true, overhauled front and rear Morrow coaster, this old girl is going to ride pretty nice I think. Overall very happy with this matching wheelset for our ’36 Schwinn.
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This was a few months ago. Gary truing the actual rear wheel from my '37 prewar that I'll use on this '36. While truing, one spoke snapped, then another, then another. After that, we both agreed to have all the spokes replaced, so Gary brought the wheelset back to Santa Cruz.
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