Video Transcript

This clip we want to work on wheel dishing using the wheel dishing tool. Now we want to check the dish of this wheel. The dish refers to the centerline of this rim. Being square against the centerline of the fork tips or wheel drop outs. We use a tool called the dishing tool and we will measure against the hub phalanges. So, if you were to lay the dishing tool like so. Adjust your feeler until it just touches the axle. The axle face or not the end of the axle. But the actual part that's going to touch the frame. And we're going to compare that against the other side. This side's off a little bit. In fact, when this feeler gauge is set to nearly touch, this side's going to have a gap. We want eliminate that. So, if you can visualize the rim needing to go that direction to bring this feeler gauge closer to the centerline. It means we're going to add tension to this left side of the wheel. This will be a very subtle adjustment because our gap is not great. We've only got about three millimeters to deal with here. So, we're going to throw it back into the jig. And this time, we're just going to hit left side spokes only. And we're going to add just a little bit of tension. Maybe half a turn to each of those guys. Always starting at the valve holes, we have a good reference point. Here's a left side spoke. We're going to add just a half a turn. The next left side spoke, half a turn and so on. We'll kind of ignore the right side spokes for now. They are feeling pretty good. Now by tensioning these left side spokes only, we've effectively moved the rim centerline over to the left. Now our centerline's close so we can re-adjust the tool. And you can see we've got virtually the same gap at the feeler here as here. Like so. And of course that confirms that the rim is centered against those hub faces. We'll call that a properly dished wheel.