Yup, M9000 + Zee. Problem I just noticed is that the lower limit screw doesn't even come close to being in the right place to limit it to six gears as shown. Not sure what to do about that.
@whattheheel: You may very well be right. I think it's a matter of angle rather than length (or at least that's what I tell my girlfriend). It's hard to explain, but the nub that the limit screw is meant to hit sits in a totally different place in most gears.
@whattheheel: Thank you!! @sherbet threw a few segments of it at me a year or two ago, but I had no use for it until now. Very stoked now that it's on there. I was gonna f*ck around with the limit screw some more at the end of the day but some dude came in five minutes before closing.....and asked me to price out multiple road groupsets for him.
@whattheheel: I've got a high school co-op student working for me right now but this kid doesn't have a fake ID! If I'd known I couldn't send him to get me wobblies I wouldn't have agreed to take him in, damn.
Start with a cassette that matches your shifter. I'm using a 10-speed Saint, so I started with 10-speed Tiagra. You have to be a bit careful and a bit lucky because mid to high-end MTB cassettes often place multiple gears on a single aluminum carrier. Some of the very cheapest cassettes use entirely individual cogs, but riveted together...once you pop the rivet off, you can use them individually and there's no structural damage to cogs either. What you want is a cassette that either doesn't group them at all, or groups them in such a way that you can use just 5, or just 6, or just 7. I can't remember what cassette I used for this last time but I think it was a Shimano HG81. Then you just toss the gears you aren't using. My Hadley SS hub fits six gears and one spacer, which with this cassette gives me an 11-19 ratio. In the past I've experimented with taking cogs out of the middle of the stack rather than just pulling the 4 easiest gears off, but shift quality suffers because the ramps are no longer lined up quite as intended.
The limit screw question is a good one...for the vast majority of derailleurs, just toss in a longer screw like you say. For this particular one, that won't cut it and I need to figure something else out. Watch this space I guess. One way around that is to set the derailleur up with the shifter already shifted into an easier gear, that way you use the shifter as a limit rather than the derailleur. I've tried this in the past with a similar setup (6-speed made of of 9-speed SRAM stuff) and it works. You end up with a few gears worth of slack at the top end, however.
Spacer - I just use the plastic spacers that go in between cassette cogs. I only needed a small one because this is technically a singlespeed hub. There's not a lot of space to take up.
@meser: I use the stock titanium singlespeed cassette body. It's the regular Shimano spline, just shortened, so the maximum number of gears you can fit is six. The idea is that when set up singlespeed, you've got some room to adjust the cog's position for a better chainline.
@meser: To my knowledge, Hadley doesn't offer a driver. It's a shame because this is an extremely reliable, fast, high-quality hub, and a driver option would fit great.