Make sure your wheels are dead centre for optimised riding performance,with this easy to make dishing tool.
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@AG-el6vt Жыл бұрын
Some time ago I found a different approach in another vid. A commenter shared this method to check the dishing: 1. Put your wheel on its side on top of two equal supports. I use two identical cups on a level table, under opposite sides of the rime -or tyre if it's on). 2. Then you see how far the axle end is from the surface of the table. You can use pretty much anything to gauge this: stacked coins, other small flat objects will do. 3. When you're happy, you just flip the wheel around and see how far the other axle end is now from the spacers. This will show how different each end is. Then you can adjust your spoke tension to bring them to the same exact distance to the centre of the axle.
@LuiS-kj1qeКүн бұрын
great tip
@rezganger7 жыл бұрын
I love that u show people to make their own stuff in stead of spending too much money when not really nessecary . Thanks.
@larchman4327Ай бұрын
I made a dishing tool by cutting cheap 4' level (aluminum I beam shape) i found and cut it to 26" and two 3" pieces then bolted them to the ends and I have a few small 1/4" plywood squares to reduce gap then I just eyeball it. Works on 700 and 26" rims. Works great looks OK too.
@stevenleffanueАй бұрын
Sounds like that would work 👍
@averagelife55235 жыл бұрын
This help me a lot... thank you so much really appreciated
@normankoo61593 жыл бұрын
Thanks!! This is wonderful!!
@glennmcfarlane55137 жыл бұрын
Excellent tutorial. Thanks for this. I am sure many others will be interested in this.
@randydicotti39752 жыл бұрын
This gentleman foregoes profit in the name of helping others. He deserves donations.
@arnodivalentin5639 Жыл бұрын
just what I was looking for, thanks
@justinray8842 жыл бұрын
Great video🙂
@Gledii4 ай бұрын
Brilliant!!
@MyMd11115 жыл бұрын
Thanks, you just convinced me tu buy a cheap one.
@rockefelleragent13574 жыл бұрын
You don't need a wheel dishing tool... use a bicycle frame tube and brake caliper to be your reference to make your wheel centered.... you don't even have to have a truing stand either, though it helps, but can do it with using your eye ballz and hands
@user-go8oj4dl4w3 жыл бұрын
seems like you could prop the rim up horizontally on a table and then just measure the distance from the nut to the table's surface (and then flip it over and compare).
@Sandstorm694 ай бұрын
@@rockefelleragent1357what are you talking about ❓
@solanogu2 жыл бұрын
Probably won{t get to make it but thanks for the great tip!
@rolandpaingaud74743 жыл бұрын
So useful.
@andrefoster80285 жыл бұрын
now where to get the plastic to do so hopefully amazon or lowes will have these pieces but love your videos on repair for the DIY REPAIR
@stevenleffanue5 жыл бұрын
If you cant find the right poly pieces I can post them to you Andre
@mitchellmtb720211 ай бұрын
You don’t need a dishing tool. Just take one arm off your truing stand and check both sides of wheel.
@gbugg13617 жыл бұрын
Everything fantastic & what looks to be a great & simple home made tool totally fit for its purpose, only flaw is in showing how to use both tools....theres no need to locate it over the axle or set a 2mm or so gap... simply run each contact flush with rim & axle on each wheel side. You do it with you eye not sound. Graham ProBikeMechanicUK
@stevenleffanue7 жыл бұрын
+ProBikeMechanic ProBikeFittingsCarbonRepairs Yes,i had to be very brief on how to use the tool otherwise the vid gets too long. Hopefully it gets the basics across. Appreciate your advice Graham,thank you.
@gbugg13617 жыл бұрын
oz cycle No problem...you do some interesting videos that many can learn from..keep it up :-)
@garyf51923 жыл бұрын
Neat, simple, and cheap. One thing, probably best not to drill towards the palm of your hand, or any other part of your body.
@domenicsandri27402 жыл бұрын
I wish I saw this video before buying the tool.
@mikeljhonson89594 жыл бұрын
I have experienced a weird problem. Even if i dish my wheel perfectly, after installing the wheel, when I give a look from standing behind the bike, it felt like rear wheel is 2 to 3mm offset to one side of the seat-stay or if i look while i am riding, from the upside at that angle i can easily compare it from the seat tube perspective, that rotating wheel looks still offset to one side. While it was centered perfectly with dishing tool. I then dish it using seat tube as a reference point and centered it perfectly in the middle. My bike was a giant fathom hardtail. With 29x2.25 ikon tyre. I don't know if it helps in any way....The frame has a uncommon dropout for a QR hub frame. It has 141x10mm dropout. But came with 135x10mm hub (giant tracker sport hub) what should I do? Does Riding with unevenly dished wheel cause me any trouble in the long run? I forgot to mention, i just gave one full turn of that sided spokes. I mean, though uneven, they aren't super offset.
@stevenleffanue4 жыл бұрын
A correctly dished wheel means the rim is equadistant from the axle nuts
@TrekSLDuraAce2 жыл бұрын
I made a dish tool out of scrap wood and a few screws. Zero $$.
@stevenleffanue2 жыл бұрын
Well done
@Haassan14 жыл бұрын
Maybe I am missing something, couldnt a truing stand do the same measurement? I am asking because I want to center my wheels and consider buying a truing stand. Though, I am pretty I will buy a truing stand nonetheless. Side note, do you have an alternative for the use of a 26inch wheel?
@stevenleffanue4 жыл бұрын
Yes you can use truing stand to dish wheels but the stand needs to be set up for it.
@Ronald-qj5nx3 жыл бұрын
I flip the wheel around in the truing stand to check if the rim is centred. If it is centred, you will not have to realign the truing indicators as the rim will be in the same place either way
@a.sarmiento51163 жыл бұрын
Just wondering why the 26inch wheel not the 700c already available?
@stevenleffanue3 жыл бұрын
Make it any size you want
@cosinus_square5 жыл бұрын
Possibly more accurate to just use a section of an old wheel, they are pennies anyway.
@henrybikeman5 жыл бұрын
That mains pressure rated hard poly pipe (blue stripe) is not all that easy to come by, and rather pricey too. Easier to find anywhere in the world is 20mm or 3/4" nominal pvc pipe (usually white) which can also be softened and bent by a hot air gun in the same way. A propos of your rim low spot jacking tool, which I love, the word you are looking for to describe deformed/metal is "yielded". I'm an engineer but I'm not half as creative as you are sir.
@Sudipto17Kolkata4 жыл бұрын
Why does it have to be a bow shaped one? What's wrong with it being straight with two blocks for legs at either end ? Is accuracy the issue here?
@stevenleffanue4 жыл бұрын
Yes that works too.
@steelteepost98107 жыл бұрын
Saving money isn't the only reason to do this -- it's fun to admire your own handiwork. I got a book a long time ago for my carpentry projects called _Working Alone: Tips & Techniques for Solo Building (For Pros By Pros)_ by John Carroll.
@vmat3777 жыл бұрын
Poly from Bunnings?
@stevenleffanue7 жыл бұрын
+vmat377 Yes Bunnings should have it
@mattiasrask15753 жыл бұрын
way only to 26 dos it dont work on 20 my diy recumbent trike for two 20 front wheels ?
@stevenleffanue3 жыл бұрын
All wheels. For very small wheels simply shorten the tools arms. You may end up with 2 tools....cheap to make anyhow
@mattiasrask15753 жыл бұрын
@@stevenleffanue thanks for fast answer : ) subscribed ps would love if you show inna video how to calculate spoke length when you don't know the diameter looking on a internet store with rim s Rigida X-Star 20 hub shimano HB-MT400-B
@dennisfraschetta65884 жыл бұрын
What is the difference betweeen a 256mil and 258mil Spokes ? A beautiful dish ...enjoy getting some plumbing supplies at The Garden Center, GOTTA value the Do it yourself...Getter ✔ Done
@itsm3th3b337 жыл бұрын
I don't get the purpose of this tool. Can't you accomplish the same task in your wheel truing station? How about a DIY wheel truing station?
@stevenleffanue7 жыл бұрын
+J Y It lets you know if the centre of your rim is in the centre of your frame or fork.
@valemodsVD5 жыл бұрын
Why is Jeremy Iron making these type of videos? :D
@Caliiforniicatiion3 жыл бұрын
👏👏👏👏👏👏💡👍🙋♂️🇧🇷
@hamhumtube7 жыл бұрын
hmm i do not think anybody could bend the pipe ends on equal length and angle. sorry this one is null
@stevenleffanue7 жыл бұрын
+hamhumtube Doesnt need to be equal angle from centre. It is the gap from the ends to the rim that show the dish. Make one and you will see. Let me know how you get on?
@hamhumtube7 жыл бұрын
oz cycle angles between flat ends and circular ends should matter?
@mainzman72396 жыл бұрын
As long as the 3 contact points remain in the same position relative to each other as you check both sides it doesn't matter if the angles are different. It's only the position of those contact points that matters. A very nice video, thanks for taking the time to show us these tips. You just got a new subscriber : )
@automaticraccon5 жыл бұрын
Eyeballing would probably be more accurate than this. Not a dishing tool.