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Irish John
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Hi guys & gals,
I'm mounting my customised sprocket mounting for a 48T sprocket on a Shimano 7 spd internal geared hub. It's a Honda\Grubee frame mount and the mounting brackets, clamps and rubber clamp pads are the same as any normal sprocket mounting kit except these are all bigger radius to fit the big rear hub.
My question is this: can I leave out the steel clamping bracket between the sprocket and the spokes and just use a steel clamping bracket on the inside of the spokes to tighten the nuts against. These clamps were very hard for me to make and they are beautiful but expensive. Why use one on the inside of the sprocket? Why not just let the sprocket itself act as the steel clamp and then I'd have a spare one for my next build using this model of Schwinn. This would save me a lot of money. I've got 2 pics below so you can see what I mean. The order of the clamping sandwich would be bolt head, sprocket, rubber clamp, spokes, rubber clamp, steel bracket, nut. The usual sandwich but omitting one steel clamp. Am I being a tight-fisted meanie or am I being sensibly frugal?
I'm mounting my customised sprocket mounting for a 48T sprocket on a Shimano 7 spd internal geared hub. It's a Honda\Grubee frame mount and the mounting brackets, clamps and rubber clamp pads are the same as any normal sprocket mounting kit except these are all bigger radius to fit the big rear hub.
My question is this: can I leave out the steel clamping bracket between the sprocket and the spokes and just use a steel clamping bracket on the inside of the spokes to tighten the nuts against. These clamps were very hard for me to make and they are beautiful but expensive. Why use one on the inside of the sprocket? Why not just let the sprocket itself act as the steel clamp and then I'd have a spare one for my next build using this model of Schwinn. This would save me a lot of money. I've got 2 pics below so you can see what I mean. The order of the clamping sandwich would be bolt head, sprocket, rubber clamp, spokes, rubber clamp, steel bracket, nut. The usual sandwich but omitting one steel clamp. Am I being a tight-fisted meanie or am I being sensibly frugal?
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