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Pro tip: check your spoke tension after a rebuild, not just the truing stand
Had a wheel come back to me about 3 weeks ago, a guy brought in a rear he laced himself on a 36 hole rim and it wobbled like a wet noodle. I threw it on the stand, got it dead straight, handed it back feeling good about myself. A week later he walks in holding the same wheel with two snapped spokes and a big flat spot, and I felt like a jerk. Turns out I never squeezed the spokes or checked tension, I just chased the wobble until the needle sat quiet. I dug out my old tensiometer from the bottom drawer, the one I hardly touched in years, and the drive side was all over the place, some spokes at 80 kgf and others pushing past 130. Back when I learned this stuff in the 90s, the old guy I worked under would have smacked my hand for trusting a truing stand by itself. Rebuilt the whole thing, stress relieved it twice, and it has held up fine since. Do you all stress relieve before or after your final true, or am I the only one who got lazy about it?
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