As I said previously, unless you're going to compile data characterizing the performance of the hubs your statement is nothing but an opinion based on a sample size of one.
The most frequent cause of premature bearing failure is improper installation of the unit. But accusing you or your LBS of that would be my opinion.
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This is Africa, 1943. War spits out its violence overhead and the sandy graveyard swallows it up. Her name is King Nine, B-25, medium bomber, Twelfth Air Force. On a hot, still morning she took off from Tunisia to bomb the southern tip of Italy. An errant piece of flak tore a hole in a wing tank and, like a wounded bird, this is where she landed, not to return on this day, or any other day.
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