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Professional quality wheel truing stand. Sturdy and precise, chrome-plated steel construction. Accepts 16"-28" wheels (with or without tires). Spring loaded calipers and arm for accurate readings. Can be mounted to a bench, in a vise, or to the 20-degree tilting TSB-2 molded base (with storage bins).
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
"Standard" by which all other truing stands are judged
By G. Powell
This is the stand to own. It's expensive but if after building a set of wheels you decide you don't want it, you can sell it on ebay for nearly what you'll pay here for it. They are that good.I got mine to build a set of wheels, and picked up the plastic base, Park Tool TSB-2 Truing Stand Base and a copy of The Bicycle Wheel 3rd Edition. Visited my local bicycle store for rims, nipples and a wrench that fit. A couple of evenings and I had my own custom built wheels.This wheel truing stand makes the job relatively easy for an amateur wheel builder because the self centering pincher gauge helps you automatically dish the rear wheel and correctly center the front. The whole tendency to make an egg shaped potato chip wheel goes away. It's not trivial but if you are handy with tools and can follow instructions and don't mind taking your time to make sure that you've threaded the spokes correctly in the hub, you'll be building wheels like a pro.Plus once you own one of these stands you won't let your wheels get so far out of round from those potholes before fixing them, because, well it's easy with this jig.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.Awesome Stand!
By J. Knudtson
Looked at all the stands and reviews and decided I couldn't go wrong with this one and I was right. Would've liked to have an offset on it. Maybe it does and I haven't figured it out yet. Either way it works great for me. The better the tools the less chance for error. Riding on my bike is great and this helps give me more time to ride and less time repairing.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Lousy design. Dish moves over time.
By Morgan Venable
A truing stand is a pretty simple thing. It holds a wheel, and it lets you move a caliper very close to the rim on either side so you can true it. You'd think that would be an easy thing. If you made a single, monolithic system to hold the wheel and the caliper, and limited the lateral play of the caliper, you'd get a truing stand which was self-dishing, i.e. which would let you center the wheel at the same time as you true it.Too bad Park didn't design it that way... They combined the up-down motion of the caliper arm with the lateral adjustment for it. The result is tragic.This much-vaunted "shop-grade" tool fails to maintain dish over time -- moving the caliper arm up and down slowly causes the dish setting to drift. If you true a lot of wheels with different diameters (622mm, 559mm, etc), you *have to* use a separate, clumsy, pointless dishing tool to get the dish set right. That means having a dishing tool (big bulky dumb tool), taking the wheel out of the stand to check it, and then putting it back in. Just to *check* how close you've gotten.On a properly designed truing stand, true and properly dished are at the exact same place, and they converge *together* -- there's no point in making a true wheel that isn't dead-on properly dished.This is a known design flaw -- Park has instructions on how to correct the dish of the tool as it wanders over time. If they designed the tool differently, you'd never have to fix it, ever. Instead you're left wondering just how much it's moved during the last wheel build. Sure, you could test every wheel you build with a separate dish tool, but if it were built right you wouldn't have to!Do you keep a spare, perfectly dished wheel lying around your home shop to test this kind of thing? Me neither. I also don't keep a scientific-reference kilogram under a glass bell. This is not a tool which should require calibration. Analytic balances, sure. Truing stands? Not so much.The good people at Park make otherwise very nice stuff, but this design is a complete and utter loser. You'd do better to buy *any* other stand on which the dish won't slip -- the old forged Hozan sets are great, but there are plenty of budget stands which do it just as well, though they aren't as hefty.Still incredibly disappointed after about 6 years occasional use.For damn near $300 I expect better.Someday I'll get rid of this boat anchor and get a properly designed truing stand. Sigh.
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