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I was planning on powdercoating a set of Stainless DTs, black spokes are weaker by design I believe, my LBS certainly sees more broken ones. I think the black is an oxide layer, done by heating the spoke to cherry red and dropping it in oil to get the black surface coating, not very good for the metal iirc. I need to get a nice fat piece of steel box section and drill about 36 holes in the top and tap them to M2 for holding the spokes to powder coat them, and I'm lazy so it never got done hence I'm on silver spokes still.