Originally Posted by
Nyah
This is my first attempt at building wheels. The front wheel went well enough but, the rear one is a bugger. The hub of the rear one is an IGH with an OLD of 135. This is wide enough that the uprights of my cheap Minoura truing stand are forced into a 'V' position, with the faces of the uprights not square with the faces of the hub locknuts. In looking at a higher end stand, the Park TS-2.2p, I see that its uprights would do the very same thing with this hub. The video that Park has produced for this stand even warns that in order to properly dish a wheel with this type of hub, a dishing stick is necessary. So would the higher end stand really make it easier than if I just used a dishing stick with my Minoura stand? I do plan to make more of these wheels in the future, although I'm not sure of how many.
It doesn’t matter how square the hub’s locknuts are to the truing stand. As Andrew pointed out, the stand is only there to hold the wheel. I don’t agree that the Park stands go out of center all that often, however. Most of the times that they have been “off” in my experience is when someone tried to “fix” the stand. My own personal stand is always centered without adjustment.
An inexpensive stand works well without any bells and whistles but the Park stand is easier to mount the wheel and is less flexy. I built a lot of wheels with a folding Minoura stand but never regretted getting my Park stand.