Campagnolo spaced, Shimano splined 8 speed cassette

[HansOberlander]

Hey folks,

I've been looking for a solution to my problem:

I have a full 8-speed Campagnolo groupset which I want to use on a Nishiki frameset I just bought via eBay. The problem is that I only have wheelsets with Shimano hubs. As far as I know 8 speed Shimano and 8 speed Campagnolo don't have the same spacing. Also the splines on the freehub body are different.

Is there any option on Shimano splined but Campagnolo spaced cassettes? I know Marchisio did some, but the only shop I know doesn't have anymore in stock.

 

[legrandefromage]

Spacers

https://www.acycles.co.uk/miche-8-speed ... 15167.html

You'll need to dismantle a cassette, some were bolted, I think some SRAM cassettes still are - allowing you to then make you own.

But then Campagnolo is 5mm with Shimano at 4.8mm

I'd lob a standard Shimano cassette wheel in and run it just to see how it works. I'm sure I ran something like this a while ago. There may be enough slack in the system to run that 1.4mm difference.

 

[allenh]

You can buy Campag spaced cassettes with Shimano splines but these are made up as legrandfomage explains above.

I have done it myself a few times with different configurations and now hang on to old worn cassettes to use the spacers for just this application. It works well but some configurations can be a little more fiddly to set up at each end of the range due to the slight differences.

Sheldon Brown has a very helpful table showing all the dimensions you need which can be used to work out what you need to produce a suitable cassette.

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/cribsheet-spacing.html

 

[pigman]

Re:

your easiest option is to use a shimano 7 speed cassette and have one blank click on the ergos.

shimano 7 speed and campag 8 speed are spaced the same at 5mm pitch

 

[HansOberlander]

Correct me if I'm wrong but in order to run a Shimano cassette with Campag spacing I would need 3.2mm spacers right? According to Sheldon Browns crib sheet that would give me the 5.0mm spacing I need.
Is there a shop where they sell those? Otherwise I will have to make them myself..

 

[allenh]

Correct me if I'm wrong but in order to run a Shimano cassette with Campag spacing I would need 3.2mm spacers right? According to Sheldon Browns crib sheet that would give me the 5.0mm spacing I need.
Is there a shop where they sell those? Otherwise I will have to make them myself..

I had a think back to how I did this the last time I needed too (which was a while ago) and I used Shimano 8 speed cogs with Camapg 8 speed 3.1mm spacers which worked fine, yes Ideally 3.2mm spacers would be better but the 0.1mm per cog error that was left seemed allowable, from memory it was a little more fiddly to set but nothing major.

Luckily I wrote down what I did but it took a while to find, I used standard Shimano cogs (which were riveted together so I had to drill the heads out), spacers from a Veloce 8 speed cassette and 1st series Veloce 8 speed brifters.

 

[HansOberlander]

I found a really simple solution to my problem: The Jtek Shiftmate 1.

I will try it out and report after I used it a bit.

Thanks for all the replys and kind advices!