You know I don’t joke about these kind of things. I thought I had documented it more on here but apparently was a bit lax on my posting. Sold the wheel in 2014.
In the post your projects thread:
For sale thread:
It had worked very well, and I would do it again without question. The only thing I would do differently next time is to start my initial cut from the outside of the rim to keep the kerf even and avoid pinching the blade of the hack saw.
Apparently there is a video somewhere of me talking about it, probably from when I was in Uzbekistan. After some practice, and if I dropped the spoke count to 24 like I had in New Zealand, time for re-assembly with disk brakes was down to about an hour.