Originally Posted by dabac

I’ve seen that pic too, and it has made me wonder.
It seems very difficult to build a wheel with the precision needed to get full thread engagement in the head using their 16 mm nipples. You’d need to hit required tension and bottom out pretty much simultaneously.
and then what about later trueing? You’d be left with a one-way margin.
Now, the bike biz has certainly had its moments of less than brilliant engineering, so maybe this is DT’s contribution to the hall of shame.
Or full head thread engagement isn’t as important as conventional wisdom would have us believe.