On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 10:38 -0700, Thomas Lynn Skean wrote:
>> Is it reasonable to think that a *well-built* freewheel
>> mechanism would outlast at least some of the cogs? Those bearings
>> don't really "bear" a lot. And who knows... even the spacers may be
>> useful.
>
> Certainly.  Back in the Good Old Days, there used to be the Cog Board,
> with individual sprockets.  Only the middle ones ever wore out, so
> instead of replacing an entire freewheel you replaced the worn out
> sprockets, re-using the freewheel body and the largest and smallest
> sprockets.  It worked then, why wouldn't it work now?  Only reason I can
> think of is the lack of availability of replacement sprockets.
>

Is this possible with the build-your-own cassettes that harris sells?

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/harris/k7.html#sprockets

-sv

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