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Spokes that fit without drilling?

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Rd:
This is a good tutorial.
http://www.thumpertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=583471&highlight=true+wheel+90+minutes

BDI:
I like what he was saying about the truing stand. For a long time I used my bench vice turned sideways with a 3/4" piece of all thread and two nuts. I would use the wheel spacers and tighten the nuts on each side of the wheel. It don't matter if the allthread didn't really fit the hole as long as the spacers and bearings were all lined up, wich they do automaticly. Then you just clamp something off the bench to check it.

Rd:
That was my concern about the stand also Don. If you were trueing a wheel on it  any side to side motion would be undesirable. I am sure a mig and a metal tab on either end could fix that.

maddoggy:
that tusk stand would be a really nice tool if it was modified a little with clamps on both ends and make a new shaft that you could use nuts to tighten the wheel in the center position. let the hub do the rotation duty like its supposed to do. not sure if you guys get what i am saying.

don46:
that particular stand is also used to balance wheels, albeit a static balance that would still be better than no balance, i'm refering to street bike tires, dirt tires are a different animal. my stand is made of square tubing shaped like triangles about a foot apart and at the top of the triangle are acme threaded collars and shafts to go into the wheel bearings, a very simple machine that could be duplicated. Its worked for years for me.

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