Thanks again, Garth. I just ordered 10X 2.0, 2.18, and 2.35 mm Shimano spacers for total of $30.20 with shipping and tax. AE did well with my clumsily-placed orders of Shimano 10 sp cogs (instead of thinking ahead and making 1 order for 3 different sizes I frenziedly hit "buy" 3 times and paid extra for shipping); far easier than trying to get a LBS to find and order 3 each of 3 cogs, and far cheaper than ordering from Europe, where shipping costs seem to have tripled since COVID.
Curious about AliExpress: search for a 22 t Shimano 10 sp cog and you get 2 dozen offerings many of which give you a price of $0.83 and when you click "yes please" they don't let you buy more than 1, or else the price skyrockets to $2.72 -- still very cheap, of course. I received my shipments in a bit over a week with shipping for small packages of 3 or 4 cogs under $7, which leads me to wonder if they don't have warehouses scattered around in their biggest markets, like the US? At any rate, with spacers of 3 different widths I figure I'm well sorted for any cassette build; as Garth very helpfully pointed out, Miche 10-sp Shimano substitute cogs are 0.2 mm wider in the body (1.8 mm versus 1.6 mm for Shimano cogs) tho' their teeth are 1.6 mm; which means that they take 2 mm instead of 2.35 mm spacers -- the total width is about 36 mm in either case. But the cassette I built on Saturday with 10 1.6 mm cogs and 9 2 mm spacers shifts just as well and identically to the other 10 sp cassetted made from 10 Miche cogs and 9 2 mm spacers, without any derailleur adjustment; so who knows. I did order 2.18 mm ones to split the difference. -- Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Executive resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, letters, and other writing services ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *When thou didst not, savage, k**now thine own meaning,* *But wouldst gabble like a** thing most brutish,* *I endowed thy purposes w**ith words that made them known.* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfgsmP3FMgCN%3D1X6FkNXp98Fk5pSg4yh%3DxbeNo98asKTxoQ%40mail.gmail.com.
