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DT Squorx quality

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#1 ·
This is basically just a rant, as DT seem to have taken great pains to hide any actual contact details from the internet, so hopefully someone sees this and realises how **** their nipples are.

Was feeling fancy and my fingers were sore so I bought 100 black brass squorx from hollandbikeshop.com (These guys have been great about the whole thing, 2 thumbs up for their aftersales support)

I also purchased DT's own squorx driver bitwith the depth adjuster thingy, so that i could use it with a nice comfy ratchet.

Out of 100 nipples, only 34 fit the driver. Tried to contact DT about it, but it's been 2 weeks and they have gone to great pains to present only an online form as means of contact.

Hollandbikeshop were on the ball about the whole thing and sent me out another box of 100.

They arrived today, and out of 200 nipples, and the 2nd box being clearly handpicked by staff, i finally have 100 useable nipples.

All in all, disappointing and I regret not using my usual Sapim nipples.

Here's some photos of nipples jammed into a tool.

 
#2 ·
Huh...I built a wheel with those about a year ago and I used the far more basic t-handle squorx driver DT Swiss sells and I didn't have any trouble with it. I have to figure that the splined portion is basically the same.

Was it, by chance, the depth adjuster part interfering with the Pro Lock stuff they put inside those nipples?