Originally Posted by
noglider
Replace 36 spokes for how much money, to save how much weight? Let's see the numbers. He's been riding these spokes, and they haven't been deemed too heavy yet. Now that he's getting a rim with a slightly larger ERD, the spokes are too heavy? I don't think so.
Spoke replacing - spokes do have a fatigue life. If the OP has put loads of miles on the wheel then really, it's a waste of labour NOT to lace with new spokes on a rim replace. Forcing a replacement rim (a mediocre one) to be the same ERD to reuse $15 of spokes really makes no sense.