How To Calibrate & Center Park Tool Professional Wheel Truing Stands

This video came at a perfect time! I just recieved my TS-2.3 and I love it!

I'm happy this popped up. We never calibrated the stand in the shop i worked at years ago and i didn't realize calibration was an option. Now thati have a TS2.3 for my own use, I'll give it a check.

So well explained. Thanks! Now to tackle my 2.2

So I've watched about 20 of your vids and now I'm a fan. The delivery of the info is fun, informative and gets to the point. Subscribed. Thx for these, you've already saved me about $200 in labor costs (but I've spent over $100 in tools and supplies 🤣) . But it's all good, it's much more satisfying doing it myself.

Just got a used ts2.2 and this is super helpful!

Been wondering how to do this for a while now. Thanks!

Bonjour les amis , outils first classe 😊 Thank you 😊👋✌

This is why you just do one side at a time and don't worry if the truing stand is perfectly aligned. It's easy to take the wheel out and flip it around.

If you do not have a perfectly dished wheel for whatever reason, but one that is perfectly true, there's a workaround by flipping the wheel in the stand and making sure the caliper fingers are equidistant after flipping.

I was just thinking about checking mine.

I remember seeing method one, then method 2 in the tech docs over the years. Now, I am glad to know that both methods 1 AND 2 are the right thing to do, for best accuracy (& to quiet the whiners on the internet forums). One request: Please put a speed handle on the raise/lower knob. as well as the main arm spacing knob, for the feeler carrier arm. It would save me minutes every day, as I have a small workbench and need the space the arm takes up when I'm not truing wheels.

I made my own. The dial indicator is on a magnetic base. The dishing tool is made of instant garage tubing, shaped like an elongated U. The all thread indicator screw is fixed in a hole in the center with 2 nuts to lock in the setting. The trueing stand is nothing more than 2x2 ×3/6 angle iron with one axle hole, clamped into a gigantic vice on a table built of 1/2" steel plate. The magnetic base sticks tenaciously onto the angle iron. I was tempted to paint these Park Tools blue as a joke. For someone who builds a wheel every 2 years or so this is a luxury. Professional results from years of amateur experience, and refined tips gleaned from professionals! Your videos are more valuable than any tools ever could be. Knowledge, pass it on!

Good video for those with issues on truing stands, would be nice to see what pocibilites there are for TS-8 for the DIYers or are the pro level stands only ones with calibration possibility?

Could you do a video on the different types of chainrings? Like BCD and Direct Mount types etc....

Hello, if without overtightening the arms, the hub is twisted causing the wheel to be twisted too in the truing stand, does it mean the truing stand is defective? Or are there tricks to align the arms by slightly rotating them?

You’re telling me this whole time you could’ve adjusted it?! I just use another spoke wrench to hold the other side out of the way so I can true one side and then truth the other side ?

Cant you make a tool for centering the wheel centering tool?

Hi! Id like to buy a centering gauge but it seams it is discontinued? Or do you still make one?

Informative video except that it talks about using the Park 1554-1 calibration tool which is no longer made or sold anywhere. Luckily I have a perfectly dished wheel to use.

So to calibrate and properly align the truing stand, get a perfectly dished and trued wheel. To properly dish a wheel once measured and true it, use a perfectly calibrated truing stand. That's some catch, that catch 22. Man this would be a lot easier if the brand new stand was even close to calibrated when it was delivered.