Homemade Wheel Truing Stand Ideas?
02-19-11, 04:47 PM
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Homemade Wheel Truing Stand Ideas?
I've seen were some have used an old fork and quick-ties for a spot truing stand, but now I can't find any links to images of how they mounted the fork to a stable base. Any of you made a truing stand? I can't bring myself to spending money on something that I could make at home.
02-19-11, 05:22 PM
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https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...our-own-wheels
Pull this up and scroll down and there's a good photo of a homemade truing stand of excellent design. I have and use one almost exactly like it. The design and plans for it came out of an excellent online book about wheel building by Roger Musson: https://www.wheelpro.co.uk/wheelbuilding/book.php
The price for downloading is around $14-$15. It's the best book on wheel building I've seen. Very straight forward and instructive. The materials for the truing stand cost me under $10.
Pull this up and scroll down and there's a good photo of a homemade truing stand of excellent design. I have and use one almost exactly like it. The design and plans for it came out of an excellent online book about wheel building by Roger Musson: https://www.wheelpro.co.uk/wheelbuilding/book.php
The price for downloading is around $14-$15. It's the best book on wheel building I've seen. Very straight forward and instructive. The materials for the truing stand cost me under $10.
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02-19-11, 06:12 PM
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+1 on Musson's e-book. Chapter 3 on tools has plans for making one.
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Turn the bike upside down. Use the frame and a few zip-ties cut to length. Cut a square notch at the end of the large zip-tie to measure axial and radial run-outs. Use the frame/fork to center the dish.
02-19-11, 08:09 PM
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I took a length of angle iron, 2x2, leaving part of the flange
to clamp in a bench vise , cut off the rest of the flange to make it flat,
bent those up 90 degrees to be parallel.
then cut a V notch in the ends for the axle..
Bolted on another piece of flat metal, bent, on the end
bolted to the U upright
to that I can fit spring clamps for the reference point sideways ..for lateral truing.
the L shaped piece itself serves as a circularity reference.
You could use steel [cutting head burns off the flange quickly]
Or aluminum for this,
aluminum cuts with a hacksaw
in a reasonable length of time..
to clamp in a bench vise , cut off the rest of the flange to make it flat,
bent those up 90 degrees to be parallel.
then cut a V notch in the ends for the axle..
Bolted on another piece of flat metal, bent, on the end
bolted to the U upright
to that I can fit spring clamps for the reference point sideways ..for lateral truing.
the L shaped piece itself serves as a circularity reference.
You could use steel [cutting head burns off the flange quickly]
Or aluminum for this,
aluminum cuts with a hacksaw
in a reasonable length of time..
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02-19-11, 08:44 PM
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Thanks everyone for the responses, especially about the Musson's book. I've built one new wheelset at a shop, but have a bunch of vintage mismatched wheels that I would like to tinker around with at home.
02-20-11, 12:30 AM
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:shrug: I've just used the brake pads as a guide when its gotten bad. Always worked ok for me
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I found this link on the vintage trek website. It isn't free (it says...build a wheel building stand for under $100), but I wonder if anyone has tried this or has any opinions.
https://www.chc-3.com/pub/wheel_stand.htm
https://www.chc-3.com/pub/wheel_stand.htm
