Originally Posted by
FBinNY
For the record, your spokes that were cut with a Phil spoke machine had rolled threads. It isn't a question of rolled vs cut threads being better or worse, it's the simple fact that you
cannot cut threads in 14mm spokes because the diameter of the wire is too small and you'd only get half of the thread profile. To cut the thread for a 14g nipple you'd need to start with a 13g spoke.
For those interested here's a
link to a site which explains the difference between rolling and cutting threads.
Thanks for the explanation and site.
So the fact that the body of the spoke is smaller in diameter than the threads will allow me to take up the extra 1mm since there is no physical "stop"
(of course at the expense of having fewer threads engaged)?
I'll have to see whether, in practice, this will weaken that particular connection too much and be on the look out for failure at the nipple.