Originally Posted by bostontrevor
Did you leave it in the old wheel or rebuild it as a new one? If you relaced it to a new rim but changed up the spoke pattern, the old spoke indentations create stress risers that can cause hub failure.
No, no, I've never done anything to this wheel except a minor redish, which is something I've done lots of times without these results. Of course, I didn't get the wheel new, so I can't say what horrors it may have been exposed to before finding its way to my loving hands.