Does anyone have a DIY solution for SS cassette spacers? Or just a spot where I can pick up a punch of spacers? The Surly kit is stupidly priced for what it is. I already have a bunch of Surly cassette style SS cogs, I just need a bunch of spacers of varying width to set the chainline.
I reckon I’ve seen it done with pvc pipe cut to appropriate length. Pretty ghetto though.
Abbotsford cycles has some pretty cheap SS conversion kits - well they used to at least (much cheaper than the Surly branded ones) - and they might even have some loose spacers that you can buy on their own. Either them or Commuter Cycles. All that stuff seems to be the same price in the shops these days.
Don’t go DIY for something like this…
Spacers are cheap as and your LBS should have plenty of them.
I wasn’t sure if stores stocked spacers other than the 1-2mm used on road cassettes. A mix of 5-10-20mm would be nice.
Time is money, I’d probably pay Surly before going the PVC route just because of the time it would take to actually procure the PVC and cut it.
1" or 1 1/8" fork spacers dont fit? (ive never tried personally)
When I built up my SS MTB my LBS hooked me up with quite a number of sizes, so I’d suggest rocking up and sussing what they have 
Chances are they’ll be able to get you something in pretty quickly if they don’t already have it in stock.
I’ve got a SS Shimano freehub spacer kit somewhere at home. Also have a Surly singulator. PM me if you want it
gheto - pull apart some old cassette’s and use the spacers there.
Most shops have a cheap spacer option available to them.
We’ve used PVC for polo bikes. It’s no UV stable so will crank and fail over time.
BB spacers also work if you have some of those kicking around.
It’s hard to get spacer kits that don’t come with a crappy 16t cog as well. Considering borrowing Kumo’s lathe to make a bunch.
J
I use a combination of ss spacer kits and cassette spacers. you’ll need two cassettes for enough spacers for one hub.
1.5" headset spacers might work
If you are going to go down the ghetto road and take the spacers from 2 slide on cassettes and put them together you will need to keep the last slide-on cog (normally the 11) from the cassette AND the lock-ring.
This is so the metal lockring is tensioned against the metal cog and not the plastic of the spacers, the last slide-on cog has a bigger diameter than than the lockring.