Originally Posted by
eschlwc
^ 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.
hubs have to be mirror perfect. like stems.
Ok, so I never quite get anything "mirror" perfect.
But I can do pretty close.
I just finished polishing a crank. Bought it at the Co-op with somebody's phone number etched in it. I'm pretty sure it was legit as I think I saw the mate which was bent.
Anyway, so quite a bit of sanding, and it looks good. However, there are few patchy grey spots around the ends and on the back side. I could probably work those out, but decided that it is not going to affect the rideability of the cranks and nobody will see them unless inspecting very closely.
Here is an RM40 hub that I polished up, along with polishing the cones. I didn't quite get it perfect, hard to get out all of those deep groves, but it turned out very nice once built into a wheel.
