Help! How do I get a spoke nipple out of a double wall rim??

[Kermit power]

Evening all,

I'm building my first set of wheels. All working well, right up to the point where I've managed to drop a spoke nipple....

And where do you think it has gone??? Yup. Inside the bloody rim between the two walls!

Does anyone have any idea how I get it out???

[anonymous-user]

Use a magnet and drag it round to the valve?

[upsidedownmark]

Hold the wheel up on end (as if in the bike), and roll it around to the valve hole. It'll probably take a bit of shaking and rattling, but it should come out that way..

[Kermit power]

pablo said:

Use a magnet and drag it round to the valve?

Sadly not. Brass nipples, so they're not magnetic.

[Kermit power]

upsidedownmark said:

Hold the wheel up on end (as if in the bike), and roll it around to the valve hole. It'll probably take a bit of shaking and rattling, but it should come out that way..

This did it eventually, although God knows it must've been a fluke, as the valve hole is on top of the "n" of the rim, so gravity wasn't my friend!

[anonymous-user]

my next suggestion was going to be using the vacuum cleaner...

[Some Gump]

pablo said:

my next suggestion was going to be using the vacuum cleaner...

Pervert.