Originally Posted by
juvela
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wrt wheels which came with bike -
where did you find the North Star hub name? new one to me. there is a New Star brand of hub produced by Etablissements Perrin. it is only offered in a five-piece steel large flange edition.
you mention rebuilding wheels with new alloy rims. one thing suggest checking prior to reuse of rear hub is drive side flange. these large flange five-piece rear hubs often manifest the sympton that the swaging of the drive side flange works loose. if there is play would not reuse it. you could save the hub against the possiblilty of reusing the axle set.
Yeah, New Star, right you are.
Digging through thr stack of wheels in the barn I found a New Star front hub laced to a Al rim, but with a QR axle. I'll see if I can't find a solid axle and cone set for the butterfly nuts.
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