Make my own truing stand?!
Hey I got some extra forks. Is there anyway that someone has made their own truing stand with the fork and the brakes. Any ideas how I can make one cheap and effective? I don't have weilding equiptment. Post Pictures.
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If ya wanna true on the cheap just flip your bike over and tighten up the brake calipers. You can pick up very inexpensive truing stands from Performance (the Spin Doctor brand) pretty cheap. They do a great job and it's so much easier than trying to make a ghetto cobbled together arrangement.
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truing stand
Originally Posted by DavidARayJaxNC
Hey I got some extra forks. Is there anyway that someone has made their own truing stand with the fork and the brakes. Any ideas how I can make one cheap and effective? I don't have weilding equiptment. Post Pictures.
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If you can wait get the Ultimate Pro Truing Stand from Performance Bike. The best deal to be had recently was the $20 off $50 coupon with free shipping which dropped the price to $39.99 total for a superb piece of equipment. I just used it to true an older front wheel without much difficulty. You can either mount it on its own base and set it on a work bench or even your coffee table. Or if you prefer working standing up you can just slide it onto the top part of your Ultimate Pro workstand. It can act as a dishing tool as well which is an added bonus..
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As Capwater suggests and Toolboy says, an old fork in the vice will do the job. I have 2 forks, one for front wheels, and one stretched open to fit rear wheels. I use the forks to get the wheel in the ball park, then put the wheel on the bike and true it to the frame that it will live on. The rims must be central on the frame, and the brakes must have the smallest clearance without rubbing. What more could you want?
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That's the kind stuff that I was looking for. Now I just need a vice.
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No vice needed, just use a hole-saw and drill a 1" hole in your bench. :)
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Originally Posted by DannoXYZ
No vice needed, just use a hole-saw and drill a 1" hole in your bench. :)
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Originally Posted by DannoXYZ
No vice needed, just use a hole-saw and drill a 1" hole in your bench. :)
"What's this big hole in my antique cherry table?" "Dunno. I'll put a vase over it when I've finished truing this wheel." :rolleyes: Richard |
just be sure your fork isn't skewed.
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Originally Posted by Severian
just be sure your fork isn't skewed.
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Originally Posted by DavidARayJaxNC
That's the kind stuff that I was looking for. Now I just need a vice.
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Originally Posted by capwater
If ya wanna true on the cheap just flip your bike over and tighten up the brake calipers.
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Originally Posted by DavidARayJaxNC
What do you mean skewed?
Oh and wood... reasonably ok, unless it gets damp and warps. |
Originally Posted by Severian
If the fork is second-hand or damaged that means it's out of true as well. which means it's a bad truing stand.
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Originally Posted by HillRider
Not really. As long as the wheel can turn freely and you have an index pointer of some sort to indicate run-out the fork doesn't have to be aligned or square.
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Well, one could check dishing the old fashioned way, by putting the wheel flat on the ground and measuring how high goes the other side.
As for using a fork as a truing stand, it could work nicely. If it's a fork with canti studs, you could even use them to bolt in "feelers" that check for lateral and vertical trueness. One major problem with a fork: it's only 100 mm wide, whereas rear wheels are 130 mm (road) or 135 mm (mountain and touring) wide. |
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g1.../truestand.jpg
Scrap wood, threaded rod pointer through j-clip (I think), didn't need the muffler hanger u-thing but it made the arm curve nicely, shelf brackets and some of that metal stock from Lowes I had sitting around... add nails/screws and too much free time. |
What does the term dishing mean when referring to wheel alignment?
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Originally Posted by DavidARayJaxNC
What does the term dishing mean when referring to wheel alignment?
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I used to use a 12" school type ruler attached to my forks, and then attach to the ruler, small binder clips on either side of the rim to move in and out as needed. The flipped down silver part of the clips is what touches the rim at the point of untrueness.
Does that make sense? it works quite well... http://graphics.samsclub.com/images/...0572100_L4.jpg |
Here is a great source for wheel building and truing information. He's got instructions on how to make your own wheel "jig" (truing stand--he's British)--both from wood and metal, dishing gauge and nipple driver (I modified his type and made one out of a drill bit--much faster). The PDF book is downloadable for $9 and is easily worth the cost.
I'd already owned truing stand so I didn't build a new one, but I did follow the instructions for the dishing gauge (both cardboard and wood) and as mentioned above, the nipple driver. |
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Roger Musson's $9.00 e-book Wheel Building, 3rd ed. is one of cycling's great bargains. |
Originally Posted by dj_flx
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g1.../truestand.jpg
Scrap wood, threaded rod pointer through j-clip (I think), didn't need the muffler hanger u-thing but it made the arm curve nicely, shelf brackets and some of that metal stock from Lowes I had sitting around... add nails/screws and too much free time. |
Originally Posted by lxpatterson
is that rally a milkcrate computer? my brother would be really intersted to see a pic bc he likes playing w/a computer frames.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/felixcat/124105701/ http://static.flickr.com/50/124105701_2f92c59e66.jpg There's more junk in the Flickr album. |
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