RE: [CR]Building wheels

(Example: Framebuilding)

Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:39:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jerome & Elizabeth Moos <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: RE: [CR]Building wheels
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org, donald gillies <gillies@ece.ubc.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20080929180940.0B5B819D8D@ug6.ece.ubc.ca>


I usually find that if the wheels are not being properly dished (centered), It's because the main arms of the stand have come out of center, which o f course is adjustable using a centering gauge made for this purpose.  Bu t you're right, there is no way to adjust the centering of the small arms t hat contact the rim sidewalls, so if that is off, about all you can do is t ry to offset the centering of the main arms to compensate. I haven't found the small arms to be a problem, but both my TS-2's are several years old, s o maybe the recent quality isn't as good.

I find it interesting that the Park website says that for precision work, o ne should use a dishing tool.  Now theoretically, if the self-centering T S-2 is properly manufactured and properly set up, one shouldn't need a dish ing tool, and though I have one, I rarely use it.  How many CR members us e both a TS-2 and a dishing tool routinely?  Most of the low-cost truing stands I have seen are not self-centering, although I confess that having s omehow managed to wind up with two TS-2's I'm really not in the market for another stand, and so I haven't kept up with new products in this area.

Regards,

Jerry Moos
Big Spring, Texas, USA


--- On Mon, 9/29/08, donald gillies wrote:


From: donald gillies <gillies@ece.ubc.ca> Subject: RE: [CR]Building wheels To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Date: Monday, September 29, 2008, 1:09 PM

Speaking of rim-truing ...

I have a heavy-duty on-topic park TS-2 shop truing stand :

http://www.parktool.com/products/detail.asp?cat=16&item=TS%2D2

I have noticed that it seems to lack any side-side adjustment for the rim sidewall arms, and when I lay a wheel in the stand and true up the rim, it doesn't always center perfectly on the bike.

What do people do about this problem?

This stand was purchased with a 20%-off discount for about $140, and I'm wondering if maybe its an inferior version made overseas? While I agree it's an indestructably heavy stand, the manufacturing precision of this stand is at best, mediocre (for example, for the rim sidewall arms have rough crude stamped edges that contact the rim.)

Have other low-cost truing stands made this stand obsolete?

- Don Gillies
San Diego, CA, USA