Effect of one thicker spoke?
Very hypothetical here, but maybe not unrealistic.
On my current rear wheel I always thought one spoke seemed a little thicker. I got the wheel from my bike shop. I've come to doubt them since the hub is a little off. I thought the wheel was something they had off the shelf, that they got. And that's possible. But they could have built it themselves too. This is the same place that told me my brakes wouldn't work after a repair (after this 32-spoke Mavic wheel in fact) from the bike they originally put together (I think). I went home, fiddled with the brakes, and had it working again in a few minutes.
So if they built the wheel... What if they used one spoke that was thicker than the rest?
Would it be under higher tension?
Maybe that's what took out my rim recently.
Assume that the wheel went out of true a bit for several months. Also assume I had the wheel trued up enough in the fall, it was still fine/trued, but then spoke started blowing out the rim.
What would happen on a wheel if one spoke was thicker than the rest? And the wheel was trued up, but the wheel also got a lot of weight on it from use?