There must be some engineers on here who could knock some up surely! Just been looking at them, more precisely the park ones at about £115. theres nothing to it! surely there would be a few quid to be made for someone with access to tools. matey selling those headset tools on classifieds seems to be selling a few, so surely there will be a market!
Old set of forks? Or an old rear triangle for rears? If you don't/can't be arsed to get something made up.
would be handy if i still had a frame or forks with rim brake mounts! progress is good!
Roger Musson's Wheel Building Guide, [url= http://www.wheelpro.co.uk/wheelbuilding/book.php ]here[/url] shows how to make one in wood. Well worth the £9 for the book.
My wooden jig has served me well - built wheels that have lasted a season of WC DH racing!
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Sometimes I even use spokes! 😉
A couple more photos and a few words here:
http://www.gravity-slaves.co.uk/?a=412
Break out the 2x4's and a saw and go for it. If you think that's roach, you should see my dishing tool!
I can knock one up for myself, thought someone may like to earn a few quid!
gravity-slave - roach is a small silver fish with red fins yes? cant see one of them!
can't you turn your bike upside down and stick a couple of zippies (or clamps etc) on the forks at the aprropriate point ????
Not really if your starting from scratch
i have an old frame with rim brake bosses if you are interested, £25 collected.
Here's a very nice one, very art-deco, although my preference is for white (makes sighting easier). Note how he has used hard wood for the jaws (as did gravity-slave above).
http://www.flickr.com/photos/questionmarke/4190843350/
I got one that I got the guys in work to make for me. All stainless steel, with a post that takes a dial-gauge. It makes the job very easy.
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Old forks & zip ties?
I made one from some angle iron and held together with 2 length of studding, its adjustable for width, but I only use it for trueing.
I'll get some pics on for you, if I can remember how to do it.
Would be useful for the occasional bit of truing etc., but for building from scratch I'd sooner give the job to a decent LBS. I simply wouldn't have the time to become any good at it. Good sense of achievement though I can imagine.
I made this, it does what I want it to do.
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I got his off ebay;
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old as the hills and weighs about 60lbs but seemed to be a better bet than a homemade one based on the wheelbuild book design (for me).
anyone know what the flat plate at the bottom is for?
here's mine, work a treat for trueing.
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Old frame or forks works for my uses.
Love this thread, just shows what you can bosh together out of old bits to make a perfecty functional tool with somewhat limited resources! Proper British garden shed engineering 8)
I had the luxury of a small machine shop to slap some bits of old scrap together to make mine, so its a kinda cheat, but its still made from recycled bits so a little less went to landfill and I have a perfectly good wheel trueing stand. The DTI gauge really makes things that bit easyer and faster too! Theres a second one normally fitted to the lower arm for the circumfrential adjustment but I made it quick release so I can leave the tyre on.
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nice bit of scrap metal you there 🙂
I'm feeling inspired. I've always just put my wheel into the singlespeed (which has rim brakes) but the vertical bit has always been a bit haphazard. Might try something with a hinged bit doing for front and rear wheels.
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Am planning to build a wheel jig, probably an adjustable one as per Mr Musson's wheelpro guide - just wondering if anyone has any bright ideas about non-standard axle wheels as I have a 20mm front and a 15mm front wheel in amongst the QR's. I have seen a cone thing that would work, centring the hole of the 15 or 20mm axle, with a standard axle on the other side, not sure where to buy them or how much they might cost to buy / make though, only saw an image on the t'interweb
I believe Roger Musson's book/stand covers 20mm wheels, etc. I haven't actually got round to buying it yet, but I did ask the question myself in the past!
This is the kind of thing I'd seen - one size fits all in this case
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although the ones I saw were made of metal rather than hardwood. ANyone got access to a lathe to knock some up?
ok bit of a bodge, but works, but made from free bits:
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sip ties for lateral true - green for rear black for front
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lateral true
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use a modified dish gauge as per roger musson book
Holding 20mm, 15mm and rear bolt thru hubs is easy in the [url=
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I've not got any pictures but mine was made from the legs off old school tables that were broken in the corner of the tech lab. Got me a GCSE and a young inventor of the year award (despite the fact that I repeatedly told them I didn't invent the wheel truing stand).
Thanks roger, the 20mm adapter looks pretty straightforward 🙂
+1 Rogers Mussons book. £9 and all the info you'll ever need to build wheels. No black magic engineering artistry or expensive kit needed, build a wheel perfect 1st time.
Nearly finished my wheel building stand from some scrap 18mm ply and plastic from a broken printer! Not going to be pretty as the ply edges are impossible to sand smooth without splintering but it'll work 100%.