Originally Posted by
bobsyourbike
You can use some 0000 steel wool on the hub shell, and then Mothers. Will make it much shinier. While you are at it, you might as well see if you can polish the running surface on the cones. Normandy cones weren't ground or polished. Put them on the axle and chuck it up in your drill press if you have one, then use a 3M polishing wheel in a hand drill to shine them up. I've done that to lots of irreplaceable or otherwise not useable cones. Bob Freeman
I'd thought about that. Only way to do it would be in a wheel... I live in an apartment. Alone, so I can wash bike parts in the dishwasher and stuff, but there'd be no room for a drill press, even could I afford one. (Or use it without serious personal injury.)
What I'd do would be to pack the hub with polishing goop and then, I dunno... sit in front of the tube and spin it in the fork? Ride it around the block a couple of times?
The parts look decent as is, so I probably won't bother, but thanks for the tip. It'll come in handy fo' sho'.
--Shannon