Originally Posted by
DiabloScott
I'm not entirely against aluminum nipples - I have a nice set of wheels built with them but they hardly ever see wet roads.
OP said 18 of his nipples are already far along the road to failure - you can't undo that... time to bite the bullet and rebuild.
Except that the nipple is broken, it looks fairly normal. The corroded ones on mine were covered with a green, powdery type substance.. pretty bad.