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Laced my first wheel build last night but was hoping someone could put my mind at ease.
Build is a Surly front onto a Rigida Sputnik. The old rim got wrecked so put the old spokes on the Sputnik (same ERD so re-using spokes). Taped the rims together and just moved the spokes over.
All spokes are approximately the same tension. Whilst getting to this point, a couple of nipples suffered stripped threads and the spokes popped out. There are about 5 threads of each nipple showing but on the old rim there were no threads showing at all.
Compared to other (well-built) wheels I have, the spokes are not producing the same tone when plucked - they should be tightened. However they are definitely not loose and the nipples are not 'easy' to turn.
I should just tension the wheel in small increments right and not worry about the previous stripped nipples?