TS-2 Stand and Minoura T-gauge

Eddie Nosdtromo said:

Can the accuracy of the Park TS-2 truing stand be checked and adjusted
using the Minoura T-gauge that is used for the Workman Pro Truing Stand?

i wouldn't bother. my ts2 is consistently off center depending on how
tight you clamp the wheel and the axle width. no matter how you adjust
it, what works for one wheel is off in the next. just buy a good
dishing gauge [campy! park gauges _suck_] and rely on that.

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Can the accuracy of the Park TS-2 truing stand be checked and adjusted
using the Minoura T-gauge that is used for the Workman Pro Truing Stand?

The Minoura T-gauge is no precision instrument, at least if mine is
any indication. Mine is stamped with a little triangular pointer, one
on each side, to indicate where center is. If it were truly centered,
both pointers should be in line. But on mine they're off by a
millimeter or two.

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Eddie Nosdtromo said:

Can the accuracy of the Park TS-2 truing stand be checked and adjusted
using the Minoura T-gauge that is used for the Workman Pro Truing Stand?

i wouldn't bother. my ts2 is consistently off center depending on how
tight you clamp the wheel and the axle width. no matter how you adjust
it, what works for one wheel is off in the next. just buy a good
dishing gauge [campy! park gauges _suck_] and rely on that.

Have other owners of TS2s found this to be true? (pun unintended) Or
is this a question of needing a new TS2 or a rebuild? The trouble w/
the campy is that is it's only good for full sized wheels & costs $80
(Nov 04) The VAR covers down to 16 or 20 inches, but costs $90. Lack
of competition is the only reason either costs that much. If I only
had a mill, I'd fabricate one.

John

John McGraw said:

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Eddie Nosdtromo said:

Can the accuracy of the Park TS-2 truing stand be checked and adjusted
using the Minoura T-gauge that is used for the Workman Pro Truing Stand?

i wouldn't bother. my ts2 is consistently off center depending on how
tight you clamp the wheel and the axle width. no matter how you adjust
it, what works for one wheel is off in the next. just buy a good
dishing gauge [campy! park gauges _suck_] and rely on that.

Have other owners of TS2s found this to be true? (pun unintended) Or
is this a question of needing a new TS2 or a rebuild? The trouble w/
the campy is that is it's only good for full sized wheels & costs $80
(Nov 04) The VAR covers down to 16 or 20 inches, but costs $90. Lack
of competition is the only reason either costs that much. If I only
had a mill, I'd fabricate one.

John

my ts2 was like this from the day i got it. frankly, the minoura is
better in that it has the roundness gauge that the park doesn't, but the
ts2 is useful in shops where taking tires off all the time can be apita.

you don't really need to unload huge amounts of cash on a dishing gauge
at all if you're creative enough. you can use a flat table, some blocks
of wood & a ruler if you want.

Thanks for the replys. My TS-2 was way off center right out of the box.
When I spoke to a few shops, they all said to use a dishing tool to make
sure the wheel is true, they didn't really trust their TS-2s all that much.
I find this all odd. Why buy a truing stand that seems to be notoriously
inaccurate? If this is true about TS-2s, what about the other makes. Is
there anything out there that can be adjusted properly and trusted?

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Quoted message said:

Thanks for the replys. My TS-2 was way off center right out of the box.
When I spoke to a few shops, they all said to use a dishing tool to make
sure the wheel is true, they didn't really trust their TS-2s all that

much.

Quoted message said:

I find this all odd. Why buy a truing stand that seems to be notoriously
inaccurate? If this is true about TS-2s, what about the other makes. Is
there anything out there that can be adjusted properly and trusted?

I bought a Park centering gauge for my TS-2. It works, but I still need the
dishing tool.

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Eddie Nosdtromo said:

Thanks for the replys. My TS-2 was way off center right out of the box.
When I spoke to a few shops, they all said to use a dishing tool to make
sure the wheel is true,

A dishing stick checks dish not true.

they didn't really trust their TS-2s all that much.

Quoted message said:

I find this all odd. Why buy a truing stand that seems to be notoriously
inaccurate?

A truing stand makes it easy to check lateral and radial runout.

The two tools serve different purposes.

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Frank Knox said:

I bought a Park centering gauge for my TS-2. It works, but I still need the
dishing tool.

I must be very lucky. I bought my TS-2 from a local shop. He had the
calibrating block and calibrated the stand.

I check the stand regularly by putting an inexpensive dishing tool to
a wheel that is being built. In 6 years, I've had to adjust the stand
2x and it took a couple of minutes each time.