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Homemade Wheel Truing Stand


Wheel Truing Stand
 
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TOOL:
Wheel Truing Stand
PLANS:
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BUILDER:
Sixty Fiver on bikeforums.net
DESCRIPTION:
Homemade bicycle wheel truing stand consisting of a bicycle fork mounted inverted on a steel base. A dial indicator on a magnetic mount is utilized to measure rim wobble.
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Aug 29, 2013 7:09 PM
JeremySCook
Very clever - I've god a fork I'm not using (tube is cut to short - grr) and a rim in need of straightening, so maybe I'll give this a try.  I've heard of people using a zip tie as the indicator, but obviously that looses some functionality.
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CATEGORIES:
Bicycle
TAGS:
bicycle, wheel, stand, dial indicator, truing
LEVEL OF DETAIL (1-5):
2
URL:
http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php/316561-Hints-and-tricks-thread?p=15649859&viewfull=1#post15649859


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DIY Wheel Truing Stand - comment on how to build a Wheel Truing Stand - 1 comments
JeremySCook says:
Aug 29, 2013 7:09 PM
Very clever - I've god a fork I'm not using (tube is cut to short - grr) and a rim in need of straightening, so maybe I'll give this a try.  I've heard of people using a zip tie as the indicator, but obviously that looses some functionality.
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