^ clifford, yeah, i tried just sanding the front hub, thinking it wasn't anodized. it's an ofmega hub from a 1980 bike. it looks just like the campy record hubs i've easily polished before by hand. but that familiar, jagged "line" was forming between the areas where i had removed scratches and where i hadn't yet covered, and i could never rid it easily. so i turned to mother's polish to officially tell me it was anodized, and it was.

i often polish levers without deanodizing them. that 'line' still forms, but for some reason on levers, it's more faint, and i can live with it.

hubs have to be mirror perfect. like stems.