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pifko

So I picked up some cheap CX-Ray spokes from Planet X (I know...) and many of them have some weird substance by the threads. Is this linseed oil residue or something?

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Lukas in reply to @pifko

Also looks a bit like aluminium corrosion build-up (i.e. they've previously been laced to aluminium nipples and left out in the rain for months). Appalling on something sold as 'new' regardless of what it is.
They probably had a roof leak and were too tight to fix it.

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