Favorite wheel dishing tool?

[Doug Fattic]

Originally Posted by thunderworks

Doug . . . I briefly had a modern VAR dishing tool, and while it does work fine, it's not as precise to use as the Campy tool. On the VAR the center gauge slides freely, locked in place with a thumbscrew. The threaded center gauge on the Campy facilitates subtle adjustments. IMO, it's a much better design.

Thanks, that is good to know. Here is a picture of my 3 Campy dishing tools that each one comes from a different era. You can see there is slight differences between them (mostly about the size of the pads). The closest one came from Johnny Berry's shop in Manchester England when i bought a lot of his frame building equipment (including the cast iron alignment table in the picture) in 1975 so that tool must have been bought in the 50's or 60's. The middle tool I got from Steve's Cycle Center in Dayton, Ohio about 1973. The last one I got a few years ago from the estate of Bill White a builder in Vermont.