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Bought two large flange Campagnolo hubsets at local swap in February for a good price. Should have looked closer. One rear is cracked and on the other rear the flange is bent. Not a lot, but bent and soft. Oh well. At least I have some spare parts now.

retyred

Bummer. Do you think the seller knew of the defects? Any way to return them?

seypat

If a hub is bent a little bit can it be bent back at all? Or is it toast? I have a high flange one that I was trying to get the freewheel off of. The previous owner had cut the spokes and I could not build it up to remove the freewheel. I had the freewheel in a vise and was using a chainwhip. It slipped out and hit/fell to the floor. Now one of the flanges has a minor bend in it.

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Hard to say. But I had the opportunity to examine and only did a cursory exam. I know the one seller pretty well and am considering dropping him a line.

It can be bent back, but the flange is soft. By that I mean it seems to bend pretty easy. Not that I go around bending flanges, but it seemed to bend much easier than other Campag hubs I have worked on. Kind of strange. Almost like it had been heated for some reason.

repechage

One hub reads like it is a desk accessory now.

parkrun72

Hey Lynn, it may just be the nature of the way we look at things during a swap meet. I'm usually a little in a hurry to find the next "good deal". I got a great deal on a set of Challenge Fango cross tires at the same swap. Yesterday I opened the bag I left the expo with to install the tires on the '62 Paramount gravel bike and there was only one. Probably left the other on the sellers table.

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Yeah...been there, done that. Bought some really nice tubulars at the swap a few years ago. No cores in the valves. Got cores and inflated them. One had sidewall damage that did not show unless inflated.