Making progress. Dunked and cleaned the AW bits (not that they even
needed cleaning - everything looked perfect), gave everything a good re-lube, and put it back together:
Hub isn't so clean, but that's about to be rectified:
...and polished up and back together:
There's only so much I can clean off the rim, but as you can see, the brake blocks have worn the chrome away down to either the steel or the nickel anyway. They'll probably clean a bit more off when this thing is finally rolling.
I also discovered that the locknut on the left side of the Sturmey AW had cracked, which led me to reconsider the apparent omission of a locknut - only the lock washer - on the drive side of this hub. Unlike a Sports, this bike has axle tensioners (after all, they're rear-facing), so I was considering whether this was an intentional difference at the factory for the rod-brakers - but the cracked LH locknut suggests to me that the right hand locknut probably failed in a similar manner, and might have been removed by whoever installed the Continental tires at some point in the bike's life.
Still, I sent a message to @
SirMike1983 who seems to have seen more than a few of these early hubs. Tagging @
nlerner just in case too.
-Kurt