Patrick Since you have an 8 speed chain, that seems an easy experiment. Perhaps compare widths of your 9 speed and 8 speed chains. Since you're not using a 9 speed cogset, it seems a 9 speed chain isn't necessary.
dougP On Monday, October 15, 2012 7:54:40 AM UTC-7, Patrick Moore wrote: > > Interesting possibility. Since I have only 7 cogs on that freehub > body, perhaps I should just ensure that all my spacers are 7 or 8 > speed (I think many of them now are 9) and use one of the 8 speed > chains I have. > > .... Or -- is the internal width of 8 and 9 speed chains the same? ... > > On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Jan Heine > <hei...@earthlink.net<javascript:>> > wrote: > > On Oct 15, 5:49 am, Michael Hechmer <mhech...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I have had chain suck when I mixed shimano or shimano standard rings on > a > >> sugino crank. > > > > A lot of inexpensive chainrings are made to somewhat loose tolerances. > > If your teeth are too thick, then the chain will stick once in a > > while. With 10- or 11-speed, the tolerances here are +/- 0.005 mm, and > > few of today's smaller makers can meet those demands. With Sugino > > moving the production of their less expensive cranks to China, I would > > not be surprised if their quality also had taken a further nosedive. > > > > Before we found a good supplier for the chainrings of our new Rene > > Herse cranks, we had to measure a lot of chainrings. (We even made a > > gauge so we didn't have to measure each tooth separately.) We were > > surprised by the variability that some makers had in their tooth > > thickness. > > > > Jan Heine > > Compass Bicycles Ltd. > > http://www.compasscycle.com > > > > Follow our blog at http://janheine.wordpress.com/ > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > > To post to this group, send email to > > rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com<javascript:>. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > > > > > > -- > Vote early, vote often, vote Rhinoceros! > http://tinyurl.com/d7muj2t > > ------------------------- > Patrick Moore, Albuquerque, NM, USA > For professional resumes, contact Patrick Moore, ACRW > http://resumespecialties.com/index.html > ------------------------- > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/AbcrEwR0xikJ. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
