Following Ted's good example by taking this to his new thread: Back in the 7 and perhaps 8 speed days cassettes were bolted together and it was easy to disassemble them. Then they started using rivets which were easy to drill out. The only real problem in disassembling cassettes for individual cogs is cassettes built on spiders, tho' I suppose you can find a spidered cog subset of your choice and add it to loose smaller cogs; I stopped at the rivets. But I used to have a (really) 20 lb box of 7, 8, 9, and 10 sp HG cogs and some Uniglides from which I built 7, 8, 9, and even 10 sp cassettes that worked fine; then I ordered Shimano-type Miche cogs in more or less the right series; these shifted better; in fact, with 11 sp chain on 10 of them, perfectly, and I sold that box of cogs and stocked up on Miches.
I bought my Miches from Cycle Clinic in England during COVID when you couldn't find them in the US; perhaps now again available domestically; quick looks says Modern Bike has 53 different ones. Perhaps QBP is now carrying them again? Parick Moore, who also filed modern 3-prong SA 3/32 cogs to fit ancient 2-spline 1/8" SA drivers. On Sat, May 20, 2023 at 11:49 AM George Schick <bhim...@gmail.com> wrote: > Now that we've pretty thoroughly hijacked this blog thread: Patrick, if > you've been building your own cassettes for 20 years, where have you been > able to purchase individual cogs (and spacers) in order to assemble your > own desired combination? Everything I've noticed when removing cassettes > from their splined "body" for cleaning or substituting a different combo's > was that several of the central cogs are riveted together (which is what I > think Piaw was getting at when he said "...after cassettes were introduced > you couldn't pick individual sprockets any more...")? > > On Saturday, May 20, 2023 at 11:58:59 AM UTC-5 Patrick Moore wrote: > >> I've been home-building cassettes for 20 years at least after I got >> sufficiently frustrated with stock combinations; in friction (and even >> indexed) they have shifted fine. I agree about 11 sp chains; at least, I'm >> using an 11 on my (custom, built with Miche cogs) 10 sp cassette and I've >> never had better shifting. Have read many places that 10 sp chains ar >> longer lasting than 9, 11 than 10. Perhaps will try making an 11 sp >> cassette with my 10 sp Miche cogs by substituting 11 sp spacers for the 10 >> sp ones and will try a 12 sp chain. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfgsNqhUvTwCQ%3DuQxNwC4Rb6qDZDFA6aDp32A3yHBKHsJ8w%40mail.gmail.com.
