Originally Posted by
FBinNY
The OP doesn't even need to do that, except to see if all the spokes are short. When nipples break, it's always at or beyond the end of the spoke. If the broken section still attached to the spoke is the shank, that confirms the short spoke diagnosis.
Agreed. I guess my method would show if all the spokes are too short, one side, or just some of them. If the OP is doing the nipple replacement, he could look at them then. If he is getting the nipples replaced by someone else, they may not look at the length of the rest of the spokes.