I decided to just keep the existing rims, they do work well enough, and I like the idea of keeping a bunch of this bike original.
I did disassemble the front wheel this evening and clean all the rim spokes and nipples with steel wool, and polished the hub and reassembled it all, it came out pretty nice for an evening project. I did also order some Pasela prolites as well!
The spokes are all sticking out of the back of the nipples .5mm to 1mm so I will need to grind those down. Before I rebuilt the wheel they were sticking out a bit, but not as bad as they are now, the spoke tension was fairly low before I rebuilt the wheel, now that it is tensioned properly the spokes seem just a touch too long...
Some pics, I should have taken some before pics, but, needless to say, it was all pretty grimy actually...
