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A shop in Denver swore by building wheels dry, and I think that advice is flat wrong
I was at Veloswap in Denver last weekend and this old wheel builder named Ray kept telling everyone that you should lace and tension a wheel completely dry, no oil on the spoke threads at all. I get that too much lube can make nipples back off, but going totally dry means you are fighting friction the whole way up and you can easily twist a spoke or round off a nipple before you even hit proper tension. I have built maybe 40 wheels in my garage and the ones I did dry always needed retruing within the first 200 miles. Anyone else here tried the dry method and actually had it hold up?
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