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guerney

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Put the wheel in the bike and use two cable ties as pointers.
I did. It'll be nice to have a proper stand with dials. If it works. My eyesight isn't great these days, I can more conveniently magnify the dials feeling like I'm doing something important and accurate with this easier, with the wheel on a stand on a table:

https://vi.aliexpress.com/item/1005006123458934.html

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Rims have to be perfect, rim brakes.
 
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saneagle

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I did. It'll be nice to have a proper stand with dials. If it works. My eyesight isn't great these days, I can more conveniently magnify the dials feeling like I'm doing something important and accurate with this easier, with the wheel on a stand on a table:

https://vi.aliexpress.com/item/1005006123458934.html

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Rims have to be perfect, rim brakes.
What if the gauges are too accurate compared with your truing? You'll be sitting there for the rest of your life with the wheel going round and round as you adjust one way and the other until you die of starvation.

I have another good idea. Your magnifier and truing stand cost £100 together. For that amount of money, you can get about 5 wheels trued at a bike shop. How many do you plan to do?

Another solution is to ride with a wobbly wheel until one of those bicycle charity events, where they do free checks and servicing.

If all else fails, bring the wheel and the £100 to me, and I'll do it with two cable-ties.
 

guerney

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What if the gauges are too accurate compared with your truing? You'll be sitting there for the rest of your life with the wheel going round and round as you adjust one way and the other until you die of starvation.
I need to lose more weight.


I have another good idea. Your magnifier and truing stand cost £100 together. For that amount of money, you can get about 5 wheels trued at a bike shop. How many do you plan to do?
My local bike shop is closing down for good next week. Says nobody is interested in buying bikes anymore, or getting them fixed. Blames video games.
 

Sparksandbangs

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I asked if there was a code for members of the Pedelecs website. There wasn't. Now there is. I've done the begging so no one else has to.


I'll just add it applies to everything on the website.
 

guerney

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I asked if there was a code for members of the Pedelecs website. There wasn't. Now there is. I've done the begging so no one else has to.


I'll just add it applies to everything on the website.
Is the 10% discount on top of the 5% email subscription signup discount? I'd be tempted, but their batteries don't have the mount base I need. PSWpower appears to, for when it's time to send my battery to the knacker's yard.
 
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Sparksandbangs

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Is the 10% discount on top of the 5% email subscription signup discount? I'd be tempted, but their batteries don't have the mount base I need. PSWpower appears to, for when it's time to send my battery to the knacker's yard.
I would doubt that the discounts stack. There is only one way to find out.

If you are scrapping a previous battery then just change the mount.
 

Sparksandbangs

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Having a quick look at PSW power it looks like the same mount. It is just the connectors that are different. They only slot in. It would take a few minutes to swap them out.
 

saneagle

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Having a quick look at PSW power it looks like the same mount. It is just the connectors that are different. They only slot in. It would take a few minutes to swap them out.
I just ordered a load of connectors so that I can standardise across all my batteries. One thing you have to look out for is that there are two very similar Hailonh mounts where one has the aluminium controller compartment about one or two cm shorter than the other, which is very difficult to see in a photo.

You always get the mount with the battery, anyway, and it's not a big job to swap the whole thing.. the only problem is compatibility if you want to use the battery/ies on more than one bike.
 

guerney

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I would doubt that the discounts stack. There is only one way to find out.
That's a low price for Samsung celled, someone's bound to jump at that deal and perhaps report back.


If you are scrapping a previous battery then just change the mount.
Not time yet, a year or two more I reckon - performing well, cell banks all balanced last time I checked.


Having a quick look at PSW power it looks like the same mount. It is just the connectors that are different. They only slot in. It would take a few minutes to swap them out.
Appears their "Parrot" has the same mount as my "Shark". What the heck has this got to do with parrots? It should be called "Fatso Shark".



A 4mm thick aluminium sheet mount for the mounting plate for each battery with dissimilar mounts, mounted via another aluminium sheet mount to whatever is mounting all to the bike, with the aluminium mount for each mount held on with a bunch of thumbscrews for fairly quick swap over, with cables connected with nospark XT90 or something would sort it, but it's not a problem which needs a solution for me at present.
 

guerney

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...at that moment I resolved to buy a truing stand, trouble is the cheaper ones can't do 74mm axles without dodgy inaccurate (if I were making them) self-made adapters. Spotted this, ordered it. Is it a bragain? Is it crap? We'll see. It has dials. No VAT because it's shipped from the UK not China, £6 off with coupon code GBSS49Z6. £1.20 cheaper still with blue knobs, but I didn't notice. Other similar truing stands I've seen cost more. Hope it arrives and works, I've three wheels to build.

https://vi.aliexpress.com/item/1005008720749865.html

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Annoying how sometimes these are pisstake offers. AliExpress sellers don't have to honour the deal! :mad:

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Nealh

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All that is needed to true a rim/wheel.
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guerney

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All that is needed to true a rim/wheel.
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Yes I've been used zipties up until now, but they're a bit difficult for me to see, so I bought two of these to try during a previous AliExpress sale...

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...but I would much rather have a truing stand, so I can tru wheels without fitting them to the bike, trued ready for fitting well ahead of time. Very peeved that deal didn't work out.
 

saneagle

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Yes I've been used zipties up until now, but they're a bit difficult for me to see, so I bought two of these to try during a previous AliExpress sale...

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...but I would much rather have a truing stand, so I can tru wheels without fitting them to the bike, trued ready for fitting well ahead of time. Very peeved that deal didn't work out.
Zip-ties are better. You cut them to the right length and twist them round the stay a bit until it rests on the rim. When you turn the wheel, any out of true is shown by the end moving backwards and forwards, which amplifies the movement of the rim, so it's easier to see than any pointer, and as good as a dial gauge. You just have to adjust the cable-tie right.
 
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