Originally Posted by
miamijim
Do it. i've been dping it for years and nothing bad will come of it.
The hub dimensions dont need to be exact either....a mm here or there is OK
When I first read this I saw it as I've been doping it for years....no problems
and was both surprised and refreshed by your candor.
But +whatever on if it's for me, they are high quality SS spokes
with brass nipples (DT, Wheelsmith, Sapim, etc) and no known
problems, I reuse those of usable lengths.
I didn't do it until the price of spokes started to go stratospheric.
Now, sometimes I almost have to, if I want to build myself a
wheel set and not impoverish the family.