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On a few occasions I have a laced up a small wheel and just as I start tensioning I realised that the nipple angle wasn't going to work so I then took apart a 3-cross pattern, trimmed the spokes and then re-laced it 2-cross. Sometimes from 2-cross down to 1-cross. Yes, more tangential tends to be stronger but if there is a risk of losing thread engagement or the nipple breaking that's even worse. But then the ones I built up (there were a lot of them) were large hub motors with 13g spokes laced to 20" rims.