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Old 11-18-21, 12:26 PM
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Frustration with Minoura wheel truing stand.

First time wheelbuilder, trying to do a front wheel. New hub, rim, nipples and custom-cut spokes.

So I've learned that a wheel which is very off, laterally, can 'magically' be brought into true with just the right tightening and loosening. I completed that just fine, for the horizontal, but, when I went to true the vertical, I notice that the rim doesn't even center over the feeler, and the upside-down tops of the 'U' (cross-section profile of the rim) are not equal distance to the feeler. How can this happen, when the rim is centered exactly between the horizontal feelers? I would think that the cause is in the truing-stand itself, either in one of the feelers or, in the part that holds the hub axle.

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Old 11-18-21, 01:21 PM
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The stand looks just like this:
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This level of build (referring to the stand) is pretty low grade. This stand, and it's ilk, are not to be trusted to be square or straight and only suitable for truing, not dishing. Even much better made stands are not to be trusted for their ability to indicate a properly dished wheel.

Now I know many here will say something like "but my Park stand is straight and can be adjusted to be so". I would first reply that Park has designed in adjustability because they have to for the stand's side indicators to be centered. Even the most solid stand I have used (Var 485 aka the Preciray) have a dishing function adjustment.

Others will say that they will flip the wheel around to perform the stand's dishing function. And this is not as bad a trusting the stand's alignment but still has room for error dependent on the wrench's touch when reseating the wheel in the stand, especially if there's a bent axle involved.

I strongly suggest using a separate tool (a dishing tool) for checking if the rim is centered over the axle (and thus within the frame). A very low cost dishing tool can be made from a large enough table top and four stacks of coins (or washers). Three stacks are placed at three points about the rim so the rim will lay on them, the wheel being "flat" to the table and high enough off the table top so the axle end closest to the table top is just above that. The fourth stack is slid under the axle end (actually the end cap or lock nuts). This stack is adjusted to just clear the axle end. Now just like a hand held dishing tool the wheel is flipped ove and you'll see where that fourth stack relates to the rim. Of course the stack will have the same amount of gap between it and the rim either way the wheel is placed if the wheel is centered/dished. The beauty of this makeshift tool is that you can get a complete refund after using it by putting the coins back into your pocket when you're done

I will speculate that your rim is not centered and or the truing stand is just that poorly aligned. Andy
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I have one of those stands and have built a few sets of wheels with it so it's possible. I use poker chips and a table to get the dish right.
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Originally Posted by Mr. 66
I'm sure the stand is alright for its purpose. I'm wondering if your wheel has some damage that can't be tuned true and tensioned without hop or sway.
With all new parts one would hope (and generally assume) that the rim is pretty round and flat. Holding the bare rim against a good wheel will show big and obvious bends. Or after the spokes are laced up true the wheel with as little spoke tension as possible (ideally near zero tension) and when the wheel is spun a bent rim usually shows it's self easily. Andy
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Old 11-18-21, 05:32 PM
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I had an earlier version of that stand and it worked OK within its limitations. IIRC I usually put the wheel back in the bike for final adjustment. Few know less about wheels than me, so the way I did it may be all wrong....
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I have that stand and have built about 6 wheels which have held up well. I agree with Andy about the dishing tool. I sprang for one made by Park Tools. The stand isn't completely stable, but I have been able to flip a wheel to check the dish; the tool is much more reliable.
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Originally Posted by Nyah
First time wheelbuilder, trying to do a front wheel. New hub, rim, nipples and custom-cut spokes.

So I've learned that a wheel which is very off, laterally, can 'magically' be brought into true with just the right tightening and loosening. I completed that just fine, for the horizontal, but, when I went to true the vertical, I notice that the rim doesn't even center over the feeler, and the upside-down tops of the 'U' (cross-section profile of the rim) are not equal distance to the feeler. How can this happen, when the rim is centered exactly between the horizontal feelers? I would think that the cause is in the truing-stand itself, either in one of the feelers or, in the part that holds the hub axle.
...I tried ( I really did) to figure out what it is you are finding problematic in your build. But you kind of lost me with the "horizontal" and "vertical" comments. While it is true (as others have already added), that your best way of measuring centering with regard to dish, is a dedicated dishing tool, I'm not 100% sure if that's your complaint. Vertical out of round is a whole different deal, and you need to start working on that when you initially start to tighten the spokes, doing a couple on each quarter of the rim to start, so the thing starts out in a position concentric to the hub and axle as you tighten up the rest of the spokes.

Otherwise you'll spend literally hours trying to get the thing round. Which may or may not be what you are talking about. I just can't tell from your initial post. Maybe you could take pictures or make a drawing with some arrows on what it is that is off about your wheel currently, and it might get more exact information in response ?
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I've sort of tried them at the co-op. IMO They suck.
So I just put the wheel on the bike. I put a piece of elec tape across the stays. Easy to get it down to thousanths this way. You can see the rim tickling the tape.
For the side I just hold a piece of thin cardboard or plastic. I alternate between humps and hollows. For round I pull a 4 spokes section, at a time. Then 2 when it's really close.
The last front wheel this year, I just turned the wheel around for dish.
And yah, if I'm lucky it only takes 3 hours. LOL

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Old 11-19-21, 09:33 AM
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I also own one of these except that it's an older version without the claw type truing gauge but uses hand screws in a U-holder. The rest looks the same. I've build a handful of wheels and done a fair amount of truing with it and find it's easier to use than using your frame and zip ties or other methods but is not rigid enough to do perfect dishing and needs to be handled carefully when spinning your wheel to check true/runout by trying not to shake the stand. Dishing can be done with OK results but the wheel needs to be gently lifted straight up and dropped straight back in again without jostling the stand when flipping the wheel and repeated a few times just to get consistent results. Wheel building takes some practice so be patient.
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here is one little insite that master wheelbuilder Ric Hjertberg (Wheelfanatyk) shared with me.

it's fine to adjust lateral runout by tightening and loosening spokes on opposite sides of the hub, working in groups of 2 or 4

and you can tighten or loosen spokes (again working in groups of 2 or 4) to reduce "up and down" variations and bring the rim into perfect circularity

And to adjust the dish, you'll tighten all spokes on one side of the hub to put the rim into the plane that is equidistant between the axle endpieces.

you're trying to arrive at a state where the wheel is 1) straight laterally 2) perfectly round 3) dished accurately and 4) evenly and sufficiently tensioned

What experienced wheelbuilders are able to do - in the final stages of truing - is to find one spoke that affects both lateral and vertical deviation and adjust that one spoke to address both.

this can approach an art form. Like tuning a piano. But "that one spoke" will generally be an outlier in terms of tension, either too low or too high. in this way a skilled wheelbuilder can reduce the variation in spoke tension, which makes for wheels that stay true for a long time. And Ric's instrumentation can show you the spoke tension of the entire wheel at a glance.

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Old 11-19-21, 11:24 AM
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For dishing a wheel (centering it between the dropouts), flipping the wheel over occasionally works for me.

My Minoura is old enough I don't have the red arms, and have to center the gauge by turning knobs to adjust the screws. I tried to get those gauges centered a few times, and then figured I could work on the wheels using one side at a time until I was really close to finished.

How do you adjust the short red arms for different width rims? Can they be independently adjusted?
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I too am having trouble determining what you mean.

I assume that by ”vertical” you refer to the orientation of the wheel in the stand.
Which would mean that you’re working on getting the wheel round.
Now, all trueing stands I’ve ever seen have been adjustable for different wheel sizes.
I can’t imagine not being able to align the gauge to the brake track, or whichever part of the rim you use to reference off.
Unless there’s a considerable error in how the the stand is assembled
Also, are the gauges ALWAYS off the rim, or do they move off the rim as you spin the wheel?

It is entirely possible to get a wheel out of round. But if it’s laced properly, and have the right spoke length, that really limits how far out of round you can get it.
There is some variation in how builders approach true and round.
Last wheels I built, the rims were so round that my usual incremental trueing basically brought them into round as well, without any special effort.
Other rims, particularly single-wall rims, it can require quite some effort to bring them into round.
Doing too many turns of the nipples in one go can easily result in a seriously egg-shaped or oval wheel.
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Originally Posted by sweeks
I have that stand and have built about 6 wheels which have held up well. I agree with Andy about the dishing tool. I sprang for one made by Park Tools. The stand isn't completely stable, but I have been able to flip a wheel to check the dish; the tool is much more reliable.
For Sweeks and anyone else who uses a dishing stick/tool to make up for the inaccuracies of this stand, I'm curious: Are you able to effectively use the dishing stick without removing the wheel from the stand? If not, I can still see the value in it, but, that sure would be handy.
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Originally Posted by Nyah
I'm curious: Are you able to effectively use the dishing stick without removing the wheel from the stand?
No, the wheel must be removed from the stand to use the dishing tool. At least, that's my experience. Luckily, this is easy to do.
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Originally Posted by Nyah
For Sweeks and anyone else who uses a dishing stick/tool to make up for the inaccuracies of this stand, I'm curious: Are you able to effectively use the dishing stick without removing the wheel from the stand? If not, I can still see the value in it, but, that sure would be handy.
...FWIW, I have an older version of that stand. It works fine for me, and I've probably built out 40-50 wheels on it, new, and used it to true and even the tensions on dozens more. I try to run the tensions and even them out a little on any used wheels I am thinking of re-using. Most of them need it.

The dishing tool I use has a little tubular thing that drops over the axle end as the centering point for it, so it requires that I remove the wheel from the stand, and remove the QR. I only need to do it a couple of times, because I can see from the distance it is high on one side about how many spoke turns, and on which side, will be required to center the rim. You figure it out after a few wheels, so it's not burdensome.

What I find very useful from that style of lightweight, portable folding stand, is both the storage of it when not in use (hangs from two longer pegs on the pegboard in the tools cabinet), and the ease with which it can be moved around in use. So for certain operations, I am standing over it, while it sits on the floor. For other operations, I turn it around completely on the table, like when I want to stress relieve the spokes at the end of the process.

I have used a couple of Park Pro stands over at the co-op, and I can turn out as good a wheel on this as I can on those. IN addition, I use a tension meter, an old alloy crank arm as a lever for stress relieving, and usually a spoke wrench that grabs better without slipping, the ineffable "Spokey".
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Originally Posted by sweeks
No, the wheel must be removed from the stand to use the dishing tool. At least, that's my experience. Luckily, this is easy to do.
I think Park tool will disagree. Their dishing tool has two different contact points, to set against the axle end, to choose from. One is shaped to exactly sit within their TS-2 axle support jaws' V openings. Check it out. A real time saver after a few wheels. Andy
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Originally Posted by Andrew R Stewart
Check it out. A real time saver after a few wheels.
Thanks, Andy! Who knows when I'll be building another wheel, but I will look into that.
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I have that stand too. Bought for $25 of so. The price was an indicator of its ..... quality. Knowing your tool and its limitations/capabilities makes all the difference in knowing how to use it.
For me it is easier than using the bike as the fixture.
Would I buy another one? Not now. I am still looking for a used park at a respectable price.
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If you take a look at the feelers, you'll notice that they are not simply tapered pointers, but stepped. The horizontal part of the step is for roundness (axial runout) of the wheel. The vertical part of the pointer is for side to side (radial runout) of the wheel.

Sometimes it may be best to loosen everything back up & start over if the wheel has a flat spot or shapes itself like an egg.. Rounding up all the parts & lacing up the wheel is the hardest part, anyway.

I spend most of my focus on roundness, the side-to-side tends to fall in line with the usual outlier or two that throws things wonky. Check both frequently, alternating between them to fix whatever is worse. You'll get it.

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Originally Posted by Nyah
For Sweeks and anyone else who uses a dishing stick/tool to make up for the inaccuracies of this stand, I'm curious: Are you able to effectively use the dishing stick without removing the wheel from the stand? If not, I can still see the value in it, but, that sure would be handy.
I use a Park TS2 truing stand and a Var dish tool. It is possible to apply the dishing tool to the wheel in the stand, but it is less awkward to just remove the wheel. Only takes a second or two.
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When I build a wheel I first concentrate on the radial run-out. When it is very close I get serious about the lateral run-out. This has served me well over the years.
I use a dishing tool to finish centering the rim.
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I started building wheels using the older model of that stand but then was given a Park by my boss, now I have no idea how I ever did it with that old stand lol. I bought the Park centering tool for my Park stand which I check every time a wheels dish is really off when I put it in the stand ( just to make sure it's the wheel and not my stand ). I have a Park dishing tool but haven't had to use it much as long as I make sure my stand is centered.

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The various things on the arm of the Minoura are just pointers. No measurement or centering capability expressed or implied. You will need a centering gauge, but if you work mainly on a given wheel diameter, such a thing is easily made from a stick and a few nuts and bolts.

The only reason to get any truing stand (short of an expensive, heavy, and stationary pro model that does hold centre) is that you can work sitting in a chair instead of standing at (or hunching over!) a bike. Given that, the Minoura is arguably superior to some because you can add felt pads to it and slide it around on a desk or table top to optimize your view of things.
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