So I was checking the tension of the spokes on my front wheel this morning and thought they all felt pretty loose. I pulled out the Park Tension Meter and sure enough, 75% of the spokes were at 20 and needed to be 22 (DT Comp sokes 2.0/1.8 so 22 ~ 110 kgf).

I was pretty surprised at this because just 2 months ago I did a very thorough true on the front wheel. I thought I had finally figured out this wheel building thing. So, I start going around putting a little more tension on all of the spokes and start to think to myself "wtf, I think the spokes are just twisting and not tightening". I tried to loosen one of the spokes before tightening it and SNAP!, the nipple broke.

Now the reason I had trued my front wheel 2 months ago was because I found a snapped nipple. I started to think "I wonder if the LBS gave me Aluminum nipples instead of Brass. Maybe that's why I keep snapping them". I take off of my tire/tube/rim strip and replace the broken nipple and start the truing process. It's then that I realize my LBS had put purple (?? i think it was purple...) loctite on the spoke threads, so they wouldn't 'shake loose'.

I think i've learned my lesson as to why not put loctite on spokes. I think when I trued the wheel 2 months ago I just wound up all of the spoke rather than turning the threads. So even if I had done a perfect true, it'd just wind out within a ride or two. It seems so ridiculous to use loctite on threads. If you're ABSOLUTELY sure you can nail the truing process on the very first try, I guess it could be an OK idea. But an awful idea in every other circumstance.

TL;DR - loctite is a bad idea on spokes, I need to get some lube.

I just want a nice slick spoke lube, can I use anti-seize? or regular teflon grease?