Searched but found nothin', so apologies if covered already. I'm on a very cheap budget, and was wondering if it's possible to make cassette spacers out of, say, PVC pipe instead of buying a kit. My converted bike still has a cassette on the back, because I put no money into it.
PVC works great.. just make sure you cut it straight!!
Also, if you have a good relationship with a local bike shop... ask them to save a bunch of old cheap worn out cassettes for you... or see if they have some. You can take them apart and get a few spacers from each one. Normally, they are plastic on low end cassettes and the spacers work great.
No relationship with bike shops, unfortunately. Good to know that PVC will work, it's really going to be a backup mountain/grocery getter bike. Thanks for the responses.
if there is a used bike shop in town you can buy two or three cassettes and pull the spacers yourself. The best deal is to pick up a performance SS kit.
Bumping an old topic. Why is the PVC considered a temporary solution? I know it's made of plastic, but it's only job is to hold the cog in place, which I can't see wear being a problem.
Looking to get my wife's ss up and going and the LBS is charging $30 for some aluminum rings. Ridiculous.
- 1.5" OD x 1.384" ID x 0.058" Wall 6061 Aluminum Tube 12" long $6.93 Onlinemetals.com
- Hacksaw free (assuming you own one or have a friend who does.
- Finish with a file (or lathe preferred getting thickness / spacing deadnuts on)
- Now you have all the spacers you could ever want and you saved over $20.
- 1.5" OD x 1.384" ID x 0.058" Wall 6061 Aluminum Tube 12" long $6.93 Onlinemetals.com
- Hacksaw free (assuming you own one or have a friend who does.
- Finish with a file (or lathe preferred getting thickness / spacing deadnuts on)
- Now you have all the spacers you could ever want and you saved over $20.
Found an image of a spacer I cut in copper for a guy using the method described above. Sure some will argue its bling, but if you are just using the materials laying around in the shop then its just efficient.
However I can attest that the endless spacer kit does work well.
Bumping an old topic. Why is the PVC considered a temporary solution? I know it's made of plastic, but it's only job is to hold the cog in place, which I can't see wear being a problem.
I have been running 1-1/4" Schedule 40 PVC for 5 or 6 years. It really works great. I just hit it with a little flat black rattle-can paint to make it blend in a bit better. If you have a miter box saw you can get perfect width custom spacers for pennies. Even made them for all my SS buddies after they saw mine. :thumbsup:
As for them being more flexible, not sure that is really an issue. I guess it is possible but with a Surley or King cog (wide base), I've never noticed anything. There is not much lateral force involved.
- 1.5" OD x 1.384" ID x 0.058" Wall 6061 Aluminum Tube 12" long $6.93 Onlinemetals.com
- Hacksaw free (assuming you own one or have a friend who does.
- Finish with a file (or lathe preferred getting thickness / spacing deadnuts on)
- Now you have all the spacers you could ever want and you saved over $20.
Thanks. Do you know if Home Depot has something like that? I'll have to check there tomorrow. If not, I will order it via that site.
For cutting it straight, I thought of just buying a pipe that was bigger than the one that you're cutting, placing the pipe to be cut inside of the bigger one, then using end of the bigger pipe as a guide, cutting the smaller pipe.
For cutting it straight, I thought of just buying a pipe that was bigger than the one that you're cutting, placing the pipe to be cut inside of the bigger one, then using end of the bigger pipe as a guide, cutting the smaller pipe.
for about $15. Comes in handy quite often for new forks and the like. I'm sure it would make short work of the copper.
Just a thought but you may want to watch out for Bi-Metallic Corrosion (insert joke here) if you live in a wet area. Any aluminum and copper touching could get bad in short order. Stainless and copper will be fine though.
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