Originally Posted by
mrrabbit
Hey dabac...
We are talking about a damaged, and snapped spoke nipple here...
Also...do you even understand what I am saying?
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It's as though you are saying what I already know - and yet arguing with me...are you even reading my posts and comprehending or are you just a troll?
No I'm not trolling, but I find what you're describing very improbable.
If thread core diameter = main shank diameter, then I'd be right with you. That would let the nipples be threaded onto the spokes like beads on a string. But IME that isn't the case.
It'd be a real engineering tightrope walk to have thread damage to the point of thread ID = main shank diameter and still having the barrel of the nipple snapping instead of the threads stripping.
But I guess it's possible if the parts that you are seeing are sufficiently different in measurements and tolerances than mine....