Thread: Swapping rims on wheel: DIY or professional?
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Old 02-03-17 | 11:08 AM
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For your smaller ERD wheel after you build if you don't thread into the nipple enough and don't like it DT Swiss nipples have longer threads for longer nipples. Sapm nipples do not have longer threads they have longer barrels/flats.

Here is a good explination

Here is a photo from Roger Musson's wheel book of DT-Swiss nipples:

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