Another day, another wheel (etc.). This is outside the normal scope of things.
The rear wheel I built with the Giro Tack 40mm deep rim the other day—
the day after assembly, I did an inspection and tried to true it further,
but I accidentally stripped the grip area on one of the nipples.
The image above shows the state after I'd already made the wrong call in response
and gotten myself completely stuck.
Ugh... this is bad...
From here on, I must not cut the spokes.
It damages the rim holes.
If this were an ENVE or LEW rim, for instance,
and I did that, cracks would appear left and right
on the inner circumference side of the hole—BAM!—and the rim would be toast.
This doesn't just happen from spoke cutting under tension at the end of building,
but also from spoke breakage during actual wheel use.
The nipple tool won't turn it anymore, and while there's a method using pliers,
the gentlest approach by far is
to loosen the other 23 nipples out of 24 sufficiently.
If the stripped nipple had been on the non-drive side,
I might've gotten away with just loosening the non-drive side,
but since this one was on the drive side,
I loosened all 23 nipples including the drive side
(or rather, if it were non-drive side I wouldn't have stripped it in the first place).
Man, my own carelessness aside,
my motivation really tanked—no pun intended.
In the end, I rebuilt the entire wheel.
↑replaced nipple
The rear wheel I built with the Giro Tack 40mm deep rim the other day—
the day after assembly, I did an inspection and tried to true it further,
but I accidentally stripped the grip area on one of the nipples.
The image above shows the state after I'd already made the wrong call in response
and gotten myself completely stuck.
Ugh... this is bad...
From here on, I must not cut the spokes.
It damages the rim holes.
If this were an ENVE or LEW rim, for instance,
and I did that, cracks would appear left and right
on the inner circumference side of the hole—BAM!—and the rim would be toast.
This doesn't just happen from spoke cutting under tension at the end of building,
but also from spoke breakage during actual wheel use.
The nipple tool won't turn it anymore, and while there's a method using pliers,
the gentlest approach by far is
to loosen the other 23 nipples out of 24 sufficiently.
If the stripped nipple had been on the non-drive side,
I might've gotten away with just loosening the non-drive side,
but since this one was on the drive side,
I loosened all 23 nipples including the drive side
(or rather, if it were non-drive side I wouldn't have stripped it in the first place).
Man, my own carelessness aside,
my motivation really tanked—no pun intended.
In the end, I rebuilt the entire wheel.
↑replaced nipple