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@dubtap
Are you a "gifted descender"? I am.
I had machine built Charge disc wheels with huge 14mm alloy nipples and plain guage spokes that snapped on the rear all the time. Rebuilt with DB spokes and brass nips and no snappage but kept losing tension NDS.
Chucked some threadlock on the nips and they finally behaved. By contrast have many road wheels I've built that have never had a problem with so might be something about disc brake wheels and the forces that are diff to rim brakes