Wheel tension

jimbilly gives this thread 4 Ciderz! ( cz )

hael

you are a comedy shagger/funny fucker

my flatmate was playing my spare wheels in our front room just the other day, true story

serious note, read Sheldon Brown's article.

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?