My guess is that cut threaded spokes should be fine, but I'm not a spoke breaker having perhaps broken 3-4 in my LIFE, a couple at the bend and a couple in the middle sections nearer the rim if memory serves. Has anyone here ever had spoke breakage problems using on topic 32+ spoke wheels? I've found 36 spoke wheels, even built up with stainless DT 15/16g butted spokes to be almost bulletproof. I weigh about 170 lbs and build my wheels up with subjectively relatively high spoke tensions. Unless one is exceptionally heavy, doing loaded touring or tandem riding, it's hard for me to imagine anyone breaking spokes on a regular basis with a well built vintage wheelset. I should probably add that I very seldom break anything on my bikes so needless to say...
YMMV,
Kurt Sperry Bellingham WA
> I experienced 2x (3 maybe) broken spokes (DT 15g) in the first year that
> broke at the top of the nipples/last thread of spoke on the road
>
> Memory fades fast but I think that they might be the only broken spokes that
> have ever flashed across my screen that may have "busted" at/near threads and
> I think it was a fluke with another or two (or more) in that box of spokes
> that they came out of that I have not heard of yet!
>
> My money wood (always) tend to be on left rears at hub/spoke bend (due to
> insufficient initial tension) if I were a betting person
>
> Chuck Davis