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It'll be fine, not as good, but fine.

Worth undoing all outbound spokes and weaving them?

Think I’m right about the weave using up a mm or 2?

If the spoke length is correct youre probably fine. Check tensions etc but wouldnt worry unduly. Relacing wont make it significantly stronger

Nah, and I doubt interlacing them would account for much difference in length.

Interlacing has a small effect on transferring load between spokes, and it's traditional. On the other hand, if it does much of that then the spokes can fret and gall :)
In some circumstances, it has a slight positive effect on clearance between the spokes and the dérailleur or disc brake caliper, but that's irrelevant on a fixed rear.
Many wheels have been built without interlacing, mostly factory straight-pull designs.

TL;DR: Chill out, it probably doesn't make any worthwhile difference.

Think I’m right about the weave using up a mm or 2?

Nothing like that. It's so small that you can ignore it for calculation purposes. If you kick the middle of a 276mm spoke over by 2mm, the distance between the ends changes by about 8μm

Cheers all.

Have swapped the axle and fitted the wheel now, probably ride it Wednesday night so will see how it holds up then.

Chances of a fiery death if I use this as a rear wheel as is?

Unrelated to the lack of interlacing. It's got 32 spokes, it'll be fine.

Ta for both replies, UST look interesting!

Rode that unweaved wheel tonight. Still around to talk about it.

Interweaving spokes is fake news.

While I always interlace spokes I also know I don't need to. If i did not I would have to explain to everyone over and over again why it's not necessary and have to rebuild wheels to stratisfy those don't trust logic.

Interlacing might also stop spokes pinging together. It would require alot of flex and on traditional wheels that is possible.

What spoke counts would people here consider on a lightbicycle carbon disc wheelset designed for Sunday best riding (prob on 35mm u shaped rims)?

I am tempted to go low for weight, but not sure if lack of stiffness etc makes this a bad idea...

24/24 is enough unless you're fat and/or like jumping

What if he falls off regularly?

Question: can I build a hub onto a rim off a random wheel that I found? Won't using the rim for any braking. What's the failure mode of a random rim - eyelets usually?

What's the failure mode of a random rim

Random.

Luckily this is an old username so the risk is lower now!

Ta very much - I was thinking there or thereabouts

Edit: hoping is probably a better term

Typically? What are my chances of premature death or permanent injury, essentially?

Chances of death are 100%.

What are my chances of death?

100%, unless it turns out that you're immortal.

There is no way of knowing how or whether a rim is going to fail, either after a prolonged period or prematurely, unless you do the kind of inspection which will cost several times the price of a new one.

100%, unless it turns out that you're immortal.

The jury's out on this one.

Balls to it, will just buy a sensible second hand one then

The jury's out on this one.

Not the evidence based one.

Humankind generally, the evidence is pretty one way. Evidence for or against @frankenbike in particular being mortal or not is limited.

Soon...
ish