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Homemade Wheel Truing Stand


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Sixty Fiver on bikeforums.net
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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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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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