Originally Posted by HillRider

The consensus is that, if you reuse a hub, you lace it the same way it was originally done to avoid making additional grooves in the flanges at the spoke holes. And, yes, every groove is a potential stress raiser and failure point. Now whether it is a real problem or just a theoretical problem, I don't know, but for the hubs I've reused, I lace them the way they were at first.