[Closed] what truing stand?

I bought Roger Mussons wheel building book which has designs for a truing stand and dish tool. If you have any sheets of 18 or 20mm mdf/ply/other lying around then I’d consider giving it a look.

I got this one from Wiggle/CRC:
Lifeline Trying Stand £89.99

Not built any wheels yet but was fairly easy to set up and works well - trued a couple of wheels in it.

@dirkpitt74 does that one fit boost hubs? It says 145mm but I’m guessing there’s enough tolerance to get a boost hub in..

@timbog160 Not tried with boost, it might just fit, but you'll need thru axle adapters which might stop it fitting.

Just had a look - certainly I think you're right if using something like the Park adaptors, which look to require a fair bit of extra clearance. I suspect though i could just use the axle itself, slotted into the notches. Might give it a go - will only be using it for simple truing jobs anyway... Cheers!

does that one fit boost hubs?

With the Park adaptors no, it will not fit a boost rear.  Mine does because I dismantled it and took the corners off the uprights so it can spread a little wider

Good idea - might break out the Dremel!!

Hacksaw or angle grinder, a Dremel will take forever or at least until the end of lockdown😀

I use a cheapo cup and cone 10x1 nutted axle through the thru axle, seems to work pretty well with the park stand. certainly drops in the same position everytime once set up and cheap!

You can buy a thru axle conversation from Amazon for £15 that's perfect for the above stand works a charm

Great - stand ordered from DT for £89 - looking forward to trying it out!

Well my Lifeline stand arrived. First impressions are it’s great. The callipers needed to be slightly adjusted to centre them vs the legs but that was dead easy to do. I just narrowed the legs and adjusted the caliper position until both legs made contact at identical points. I’ve seen a few people moaning about this in reviews but if you can’t do this god knows how you will true a wheel!

At the moment I am just using the thru axle resting in the v shaped notches and it seems to work fine. The max gap between the legs is 150mm so it fits boost rear on the axle but would need Rubber Buccaneers trick to use adapters. Both wheels so far checked are straight as a die though 😀...

thanks for the recommendation and TB160 for giving the follow up first thoughts.
Trouble is, the wiggle stand at 89.99gbp, added to my cart, no probs.. if I select Canada for shipping it jumps the price to 119.99gbp (full list price) and doesn't even remove the VAT. That makes it 50gb more than it should be by my math.
bit annoying as I still don't have a solution

I might be having a brain fat.. but whats "stand ordered from DT for £89" Cant think beyond my old kit car days where DT was Deamon Tweaks

Back in stock and I bought one.
Arrived, legs don't come together when in the closed position so there's inherent angular misalignment.
Yes I can adjust it out but due to the angular nature it changes over distance. So, 20, 24, 26, 27.5 and 29 would all need calibrating for dish each time...possibly also therefore different for a front hub vs rear hub also
So, I either have to build a thin disc on axle as a calibration tool with steps at 100, 110, 135, 142 and 148mm, or pull a factory dished wheel for each hub standard/size to calibrate against before truing...or continue to remove wheel, axle and measure dish off the worktop like I have to with the park tS8 that I find really annoying.
$160 plus $50 tax/duties therefore hasn't really solved the time wasting issue that I have with the TS8.
I'm building/truing for my family fleet, not commercially. But we do have all those wheel sizes across our collection.
Boost fits, with some firm persuasion with a 12mm tacx trainer thru axle.

Per rubbers_b's boost fitment fettling, I wonder if an angle grinder to even out the misalignment of the v-slots at closed would mitigate this?