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Keep i simple use normal brass nipples and a 4 sided nipple key never rounded a nipple of with a sapim key. If you get the wheel building hkt right you will never need to take a spoke key to the wheels unless they take a nasty knock. Use a tension meter, dt swiss tensio is the best. Shoot for 1200N ds rear and get tensions even to +/-5%. Do not owrry about turing radially, as if you get the tensions even the wheel will sort it self out. All you will have tl domis true latterally and stress releive. This is the most important part of the build and cannot be done enough. There will a tension drop when stress releiving so raise them when you see that and you should continue until the wheel no longer goes out of true when stressed. Do it right and all will be well.
Also never found the sapim hex driver any quicker than a normal spoke key.