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@Brommers
I've got a home-made stress relieving tool (not a euph) which is just a length of half inch round aluminium bar with the ends machined into half-spheres, and one end covered in bar tape. You insert it between a pair of spokes, and bend the spokes round a bit further adding to the tension. A bit like Sheldon Brown with his crank . So far I haven't had any pinging on a first ride, but then I tend to build with bladed spokes so you can prevent spoke wind-up with a spoke-holding tool.