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I wore out my nipple-fitting cocktail stick! It's been with me since the first wheel I ever built. Rest easy, my brother


 
Posted : 05/05/2019 6:33 pm
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Don't worry too much as they tend to come in packs of 50.


 
Posted : 05/05/2019 7:18 pm
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I prefer a cotton bud.


 
Posted : 05/05/2019 7:19 pm
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Yep, angle cut cotton bud stem for me.


 
Posted : 05/05/2019 7:24 pm
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Tragedy rather than disaster - RIP cocktail stick.


 
Posted : 05/05/2019 7:26 pm
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I've got a spare somewhere in the garage, email in profile


 
Posted : 05/05/2019 7:50 pm
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found it !

(as you can see it also offers some protection against alien lizard overlord brainwashing)


 
Posted : 05/05/2019 8:01 pm
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I always took you for a cocktail kind of guy NW.


 
Posted : 05/05/2019 11:48 pm
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Not using a cut down spoke? Heretic! Burn him.


 
Posted : 06/05/2019 12:50 am
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Don’t worry too much as they tend to come in packs of 50.

Yes but that was in 2011! I've used the rest of the packet up!


 
Posted : 06/05/2019 1:17 am
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Not using a cut down spoke? Heretic! Burn him.

Best way to fit them, been doing this way for years, cocktail sticks are for sausages or cheese and pineapple chunks


 
Posted : 06/05/2019 7:27 am
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Yes but that was in 2011! I’ve used the rest of the packet up!

was it for cheese and pineapple hedgehogs?


 
Posted : 06/05/2019 8:26 am
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I was thinking about building my first wheel, is it always so tough?


 
Posted : 06/05/2019 8:46 am
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Rest easy, my brother

Needs a Viking cocktail stick funeral. Despatching him to Valhalla is the least you can do.


 
Posted : 06/05/2019 10:25 am
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Actual serious response- why cut down spokes? I tried that but it's miles more faff with threading, and you can't use them as easily to spin nipples off either (because they unthread). And a cocktail stick is one size fits all too

Am I missing something with how people use them?


 
Posted : 06/05/2019 2:31 pm