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Bustedknuckle said:And the currect Record hubs. True about in the frame but if you are just building the wheel...I gots lotsa bikes around but sometimes all you have is the truing stand. P&K and Centrimaster are very nice but yowser, lotsa $, and no dials for me grazie. Makes you crazy. No modern rims aren't made accurately enough to warrant dials, IMHO. Eyeballs work fine.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/P-K-Lie-truing-stand-/280819970607
http://www.centrimaster.de/en/shop/truingstand/classic.html
Light rims like Kinlin or so 'wavy', some of the lighter ones make using dials almost unworkable. Samo for non machined sidewall rims, like the old NOS, Campag rims I have in my garage.
I've used both the Park dials and the P&K, totally different animals. The Park dials only work when you're close to final true, otherwise the dial swings wildly all over the place. The P&K gauges work right when you put the wheel in the stand no matter how untrue it may be.
Germans sure know how to make precision measuring equipment, no doubt about that.
Take a look..http://www.pklie.de/Homepage.mov
P&K gauge on the left, not a Park on the right, but it has the same resolution as the Park gauges.
I can see how most bike shops wouldn't benefit from dropping this much loot on a truing stand, they are big money, especially the P&K. I did get a chance to try that P&K at a shop in Mpls right before I moved to CO and I finished my wheel quite a bit faster than normal, which was really shocking because I generally try to build slower than a shop mechanic, on purpose.
I'm ready to move on to better tools of the trade, and since I have a specialty I don't have a problem buying special tools. New tools are freaking cool!!!!