Originally Posted by
vredstein
With this simple 1.5mm length error, and still no built wheel to show for it, you learned a whole lot more than you would have if everything had just fallen into place. Wheelbuilding is one of the best examples of an activity where you learn more, and a whole lot faster from your mistakes than from your successes.
Yup. An expensive lesson and I don't think it is over yet - I have to buy more spokes.
Originally Posted by
mrrabbit
<snip> However you mentioned use of DT Swiss spoke machine? With 9mm threads? <snip>
I was wrong. I check the site and they use a "Philwood spoke cutting and threading machine."