So, not sure how, when or why, but this happened
Obviously new spoke and nipple required. Thoughtfully and thankfully, Hunt include a few when you buy the wheels so that makes life easier.
Actually swapping the spoke and the nipple doesn't phase me. Question is, do I need to completely retape the wheel?
Or, can I just cut a small circle out above the affected nipple and stick a patch (inch? couple of inches?) over the hole I make? Planning on using a scalpel blade.
Obviously, retaping the whole thing is the best solution but, I'm not sure if what I've got in the garage is enough to fully tape the wheel. I'm also too disorganised to have ordered more tape and now too impatient to wait for it to turn up.
How tacky is the tape it may, or may not hold air after (assuming tubeless) - the patched section might lift !
I just replaced a couple of spokes in my back wheel last weekend. I've re-taped the whole wheel.
PSA: There are some top notch pointers in this video. Especially about using another spoke to screw into the other end of the nipple so you don't lose it inside the rim. What did we do before YouTube?
In contrast to the posts above, I replaced a spoke and nipple recently and just cut a little bit of rim tape away with a stanley knife, replaced the spoke and put 2 or 3 inches of tape over the hole. It worked absolutely fine, I checked it last night when I replaced a tyre and the edges haven't lifted at all.
Depends on which tape you use and whether it's good at sticking to itself.
Just over 2 years ago I snapped a spoke on the gravel bike, the wheel was taped with DT Swiss rim tape and I had a spare roll of the stuff so I carefully cut a hole to extract the end of the dead spoke and then cleaned the area around it, degreased it and patched it with about 5 inches of DT tape, giving plenty of overlap on both side to help secure it.
It's held 50 PSI so for the last 2 years so I guess the response is 'maybe' depending on what tape you have and how you prep the area.
If it was more than one spoke I would fully re-tape the rim though.
Broke/replaced a spoke on holiday last year and just patched a short run of tape (Gorrilla) and still holding
As above with Stans/Tesa tape, I've just made a hole, replaced nip, cleaned, put 4 inches or so of tape over the top and it's been fine.
I wouldn't bother to replace the spoke there btw, just bend it back, it's steel and will be fine assuming no massive gouges.
One of my current front wheels has had three replaced nipples, each time just a small hole and a strip of tape. Holds air fine and no leaking.
My wheel features an elongated sausage type thing called an "inner tube". Makes changing spokes a bit easier...
Well, the operation was a success (so far).
Seeing as two people I don't know told me exactly what I wanted to hear, I decided that a patch of tape was 100% guaranteed to work perfectly. Trimmed a small circle of tape away from the damaged nipple, swapped it over and whacked a 4 inch long bit of Stans over the top.
Decided to replace the spoke as well because it felt a bit soft and maybe snappy while I was bending it back into shape.
I used one of the afore mentioned elongated sausage things to seat the tape.
Unfortunately, said sausage was leaking like a sieve with at least 4 punctures so after faffing around sealing them one by one, wondering why all the air kept falling out I gave up and threw it in the bin where it belongs.
Tyre back on (the right way round, first time for a change) and we're good to go. If it blows out and I die tomorrow, there's an Orbea Rise up for grabs.