Originally Posted by
gaucho777
I'm going to be the contrarian. People are correct that Italian and English FWs are "nearly" identical, but they aren't exactly the same. The prevailing wisdom is that you can use an English FW on an Italian hub, and vice-versa, but you don't want to constantly interchange them. If this were almost any other hubset, I would agree to use whatever FW you have. Since we're talking about sheriff star hubs, however, I recommend preserving the original threads.
In that case, is there an Italian threaded freewheel to replace the alloy campy one. An added benefit would presumably be not having to find a freewheel tool, which seems to be rare as a unicorn.