multimodal commuter
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Yeah, good question.
I have switched the internals from one hub to another many times, and obviously if you are taking the guts out of one hub and inserting the guts from another, you can't put it back in the same way as before. I can't really say whether I have had trouble caused by putting the guts in backwards; some hubs work better than others, for sure, but problems are hard to diagnose.
The only advice I can offer, if you really want a definitive answer, is to mark the hub and try it both ways. If it works better one way than the other, then there's your answer. And please let me know what you learn!