hub gear question

Anyone had any experience of using individual cassette sprockets on a s/a 3
speed hub gear. It looks to me that with a little bit of judicious grinding
these would work and enable a wide range of 3/32" sprockets to be selected
from.

I've done this with sprockets for a Nexus hub as suggested on Sheldon's
pages. I removed three of the tabs and filed radii on the three
remaining ones.

I think SA sprockets *may* be the same, so if you can get them to fit,
go for it!

I find them to rattle a bit more than the proper ones though.

Cheers,

Nick

There's a lot of interchangeability between Sturmey, Sachs, and
Shimano 3-speed hub cogs, and a wide variety of sizes are still
available. If that's not enough, though:

From Sheldon Brown's site:

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/sturmey-archer.html

.... It is also possible to modify Shimano cassette sprockets with a
Dremel grinder if you need something bigger. This is not particularly
difficult to do.




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On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 10:58:41 -0500, Snortley
wrote:




There's a lot of interchangeability between Sturmey, Sachs, and
Shimano 3-speed hub cogs, and a wide variety of sizes are still
available. If that's not enough, though:

From Sheldon Brown's site:

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/sturmey-archer.html

... It is also possible to modify Shimano cassette sprockets with a
Dremel grinder if you need something bigger. This is not particularly
difficult to do.




Or smaller.

There's a 13-tooth cog on a Nexus-7 on one of the daily drivers 'round
here, ground from a cassette outer cog.

Done it!!
Took about 10mins with a Dremel but the sprocket is quite loose on the hub,
when the circlip is in place, as its a lot thinner than the genuine article.
So a spacer of some sort will be necessary. From looking it looks like its
going to have to be thinner than a cassette
spacer.................................any ideas?

On 13 Nov 2006 07:33:08 -0800, "Nick"
wrote:

I've done this with sprockets for a Nexus hub as suggested on Sheldon's
pages. I removed three of the tabs and filed radii on the three
remaining ones.

I think SA sprockets *may* be the same, so if you can get them to fit,
go for it!

I find them to rattle a bit more than the proper ones though.

Sturmey, SRAM/Sachs, Shimano, and cheapo crappy coaster brake hubs all use
the same three-spline sprockets. Those things are *widely* available, just
for the coaster hubs even if not for any of the gearhub hubs. Mostly
they're 1/8 rather than 3/32 thick, but those chains are not that much
heavier and are a lot more maintenancefree.

Lastly, sprockets intended for a cassette have shallow teeth and usually
ramps & stuff specifically to allow it to derail easily. This would be a
bad thing on a singlespeed drivetrain.

Jasper