Originally Posted by
noglider
Do not use longer nipples to lengthen your spokes. Danger lies ahead.
yes, yes. i was just reading all about that! there were even images provided on how that can/does fail. the nipple breaks at the stress point of where the too short spoke stops
so, this gets me back to wondering of how long is too long? iow's, is there an estimated or standardized length tolerance before you might run out of threads to adjust? say if i got this lot of 85 spokes at 303mm, how many mm's before i run out of threads at the nipple where i'd ideally need the 300mm spokes?