Originally Posted by
Lazyass
A professional wheel builder told me that aluminum is no more prone to breaking than brass. The only real advantage of brass is that it's harder to accidentally round them off with a spoke wrench and they cost less.
Untrue. Aluminum spoke nipples are prone to seizing on the threads and to outright breakage. I've witnessed this firsthand on wheels build with aluminum nipples where once the nipples start to fail there are others close behind.
Last edited by Nessism; 08-04-21 at 09:15 PM.