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Old 11-11-07 | 10:38 AM
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Originally Posted by operator
No the danger is running out of spoke, you can't lengthen it but you can file it down.
Again, I have to disagree. There are ~10mm - 12mm of thread grip on a typical nipple, and rounding down a millimeter won't compromise anything. If you round up and run out of thread - by even a tenth of a millimeter - before achieving the desired tension, you have to pull those longer spokes and add threads or replace them with shorter spokes. It's much better to round down to the nearest millimeter.

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