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Apologies if this is common knowledge
Pretty much everything on this thread is common knowledge 🙂
I have a spoke bent into a coat hanger shape at the other end, even easier to manipulate the nipple into place than just using a straight spoke.
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I use a cotton bud with one bud cut off. It jams into the nipple and allows you to make the first couple of turns before being simply pulled out.
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Same here, but I add a spoke nipple threaded on the wrong way and then crimped into place and then use the coat-hanger spoke to wind the nipple onto the new spoke. The crimped nipple acts as a depth gauge so hopefully all the spokes go it at the same depth.
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Brommers
Here's a tip for any other amateurs: if you thread nipples backwards on to spare spokes it's a lot easier to connect up the last few when there's minimal slack. Saves you dropping nipples into the rim and spending 20 minutes shaking it to try and get it back out.
Apologies if this is common knowledge