Originally Posted by bmcer

Just wonder what others are using to start nipple onto spokes when building a new wheel. I've been limping along with a spoke bent into a "T" with an old nipple screwed backwards onto it far enough to act as a 'stop' for the nipple being installed. It does avoid the aggravation of dropping nipples inside the rim, but sometimes the nipple I'm trying to place sticks on threads of my kludged up tool and comes back out when I try to remove the tool. And since all the nipples do back up a little, they're not all threaded on to the same depth.

I'm eyeing the Unior nipple instalation tool since it appears to do exactly what I want, but I'm curious if there's a less spendy way to accomplish the same thing.