Originally Posted by
ThermionicScott
But at the same time, I have a bunch of wheels with straight-gauge spokes in the collection, some of them used for many thousands of miles before I re-tensioned and stress-relieved them, and I still wonder if anything will actually go wrong with them in my lifetime. Out of morbid curiosity, I'll be leaving them configured as-is.
One of the engineering dictums I've been hearing for years: "Better" is the enemy of "good enough."