Home-built truing stand

[pushonbrother]

Going to have a go at building one of these:

http://www.tokyocycle.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=2453

Anyone done anything similar and have any hints or tips?

 

[robgul]

Roger Musson's wheelbuilding book has several homemade jigs .... one made of cardboard IIRC. The thing in the link seems hardly worth the effort to make - the simplest, crude, jig is an old bike frame clamped upside down.

I have a proper jog, but also a front fork and the rear triangle cut from a gas-pipe bike frame - they sort of work to tweak the odd spoke ... but are really useful clamped in a workshop stand to clean wheels.

Rob

 

[Alien8]

Going to have a go at building one of these:

http://www.tokyocycle.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=2453

Anyone done anything similar and have any hints or tips?

I built one just like that ... well just like that it you imagine sharp corners/edges rather than nice rounded ends, no varnish and none of the flash rod-ends etc.

No hints ... it's dead easy.

 

[iendicott]

I built one from Roger Musson's book and it is dead simple but you need to take you're time. It is very satisfying knowing you did it yourself. Only thing I will say about the one shown is I wouldn't use the bolt for checking radial and lateral as this will mark the wheels. I use the perspex one in the Roger Musson's book as plastic is softer than metal.

Ivan