Most truing stands are not dished correctly. Park actually makes a tool to adjust their stands. I own this tool, but I choose to use a dish stick instead.
Absent a dish stick or other improvised dish tool, you can put the wheel on the bike - the centerline of the rim should line up with the brake hole (assuming your frame is straight). I don't advise following an earlier suggestion about biasing the dish to the non-drive side to even up spoke tension. It seems to me that the off-center wheel wouldn't track correctly, which may cause more problems than differential spoke tension does. Or maybe not - I've built a few hundred wheels and I learn something new all the time. Jim Minneapolis, MN On Apr 12, 3:52 pm, MichaelH <mhech...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm sitting around recovering from foot surgery and building my first > set of wheels. I've reached a point of perplexity, or perhaps just > driving myself nuts for no good reason. Here's the situation > Components - White Hub,(unequal flanges) 132mm, Open Pro Rim, butted > Dt spokes > Tools - Minoura truing stand, no dishing tool. > > I've reached a point where the wheel is round, tension, as best I can > tell, is good to maybe a tad hi with the drive side somewhat higher > than the non drive, the wheel is true, but... > if I put the wheel in the stand with the drive side on my right it is > within .5 mm of center; if I flip it around it appears to be 1.5 mm > out of center. > > The only way I can think how this could happen would be if the wheel > and stand were equally out of center, which sounds unlikely. What am > I missing? > > Michael, > Westford, Vt where I've decided to put my skiis and snowshoes away, > even though its snowing today! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
