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07-27-23, 08:58 AM

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Piervinc

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Originally Posted by Andrew R Stewart

Can a nipple without a completely engaged spoke in it crack and break off at the head? Sure. But this is more often with alloy nipples and after a lot of miles on low count spoke wheels. There have been millions of wheels with spokes that are a mm or 3 short that never have a nipple issue.

Echoing this. I’ve only seen alloy nipples break from this sort of thing.

Last edited by Piervinc; 07-29-23 at 04:30 PM.

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