Wheel Truing

 

This tune seems to be pretty popular with Japanese artists. It's just a good thing her English is good, I can't speak a word of Japanese.

Fuzzy photo of the completed 1st stage of the wheel truing device.

It works as designed. The cones are good for bearings 15 to 25 mm. The individual pieces all have setscrews so I can adjust the center rod up and down depending on the wheel width. I'll thread a nut down on the top cone to snug it up good. The next step is to make a piece to attach the dial indicator to test runout on the drum. The nice thing about this set-up is if you are going to re-lace a wheel with a new rim, before you take the old one apart, you can take a measurement from the plate to the rim to get the offset and then make a block of the correct distance and slide it under the rim while truing the wheel. 

I did a similar thing when I relaced the wheels on the Sprint road racer years ago. As long as you're patient, it's not too tough to lace a wheel. A bonus with this set-up, it won't take up much room like a traditional wheel truing stand would.