Originally Posted by
maddog34
did you notice the LACK of gap on the big ring's cheap stamped shift aid "pin" ? (top picture, top red circle).
Did you not notice how the gap on both lift pins on the smaller ring are about the same width of a gap? They look relatively identical to me. The one on the outer ring may be smaller because it is on the outer ring or it may be a perspective issue. The larger ring’s lift pin is mostly out of the frame of the picture.
so, i dug around thru my collection of old MTB cranksets, and found one similar to Kmeyer's... it has the same thing showing, minus some wear... it is an old Alivio crankset, the adjacent teeth are the same height to the right, not worn lower, as pictured by Kmeyer.
Kmeyer93’s rings aren’t don’t look very worn at all. Not sure what you are trying to say, however. So you’ve found a ring that has the same pins but they aren’t by design?