Originally Posted by
SoSmellyAir
Since this failed experiment, I have upgraded to an Ultegra chain, and just started to wax the chain as well. I suppose I can reassemble the hybrid cassette and give it another go once I have the waxing down, but I have since gotten stronger and can manage both big climbs in my area with the 12-25 cassette, so I have little incentive to wear half of each donor cassette. I will update this thread if I ever get it working.
That's the problem with combining two cassettes. You get the gearing you want, but you're left with some cogs that, even if you could put them together into a full set that you could sell, it's almost certainly going to have really dumb gearing.
For example, I have an NIB Suntour New Winner in my box o' parts that seems like it might be the leftovers from a kit bash... 7 speed 14-15-16-17-18-22-26. There appears to be no set of chainrings that makes sense with it.
--Shannon