I have been drooling over Paul hubs in silver. I called them today to check the availability and they tell me that silver hubs are not available till beginning of next year! but they have black ones though. So, how easy is it to strip and polish the black hubs? I think they are anodized but I could be wrong.

Excuse my saltiness but: just buy the f-ing hubs. Just buy the f-ing hubs. Just buy the f-ing hubs. Just buy the f-ing hubs.

here you go again...excused.

Are you talking about the high flange track hubs? How do you feel about going to all the trouble of pulling the hubs apart and spraying them with oven cleaner, then finding someone to repolish and clear anodise them without destroying them?

So yeah, what Skitbra said :)

Thank you. My saltiness now seems justified.

I wish I had a set of black Phil hubs. I'd buy black spokes and black rims to match and my bike would be prettier.

You should do what Skibra suggested, then buy a new frame to match...

Or get the gold ones from Gaansari...unless you were able to get the bro deal from Bikeman...did you?? Anyway, I wouldn't strip down the black ones but I'm quite lazy.

Nah, I want my pink anodized platinum hubs that are only made by Japanese hermit once a year during a full moon...

I don't see your point that it is too much trouble (it is all relative anyway). What I imagined was that I will use my dremel tool to sand off the black paint (or use paint stripper), and use some polishing or fine sanding attachement to finish the job. I did not think about clear anodizing (how important is it anyway). Besides why do you think it destoys the hub? There is no mechanical stress or machining involved.

I would like to hear from someone who has polished aluminum before, or who know all the details. I don't really care about openions and dubious statements.

hey, this gaansari thing is looking good day by day. but bikeman deal is about 100 bucks off. they would have gotten me the silver for the same price as black if paul supplied them.

or spelling and grammar for that matter

or at least spelling.

now you sound like one of your surly honor students.

i gots the black high flange laced to black cxp33's i went with silver spokes and in my humble opinion i think it's ****in hot. but of course i'm gonna say that about my baby.

Agreed, both ways, huh?

In the past two months I've built up two sets of 650c wheels using the black Rigida DP18's. One set is using silver high-flange Suzue hubs with black spokes and silver nipples. Looks damn good when paired with all-black tires. The second set was mated with a set of black 105 hubs and silver spokes/silver nipples, and the same all-black tires. Which looks better? Depends on the mood. The black/silver/black combo, as cripter states (his baby or not) looks freakin hot.

Quit banging your head against the wall and get the black hubs and built em up. The amount of time and energy it will take to strip and get the blackies turned to silver and make it look <right> will eat up alot of time. Enough that you may, in the end, just wish you would have waited. And if you don't get it right......<shudder>

and coming from someone who does not put a period at the end of a sentence! (among other things).

Anyway, I am still perplexed as to why my original post offended some people, or rubbed them the wrong way. I did not think it was such an outrageous idea (to strip black hubs). It appears people here have a different openion, and so be it.

It's not outrageous, just hard to consider given the cost of the hubs you are dealing with. In the end it is your money and your choice as to what to do with them. If the end result is what you want well, do it.

Is english your first language? If not, i retract any derogatory statements i made about your spelling and grammar. And you still don't know how to spell opinion. Period.

What made you think that the FG/SS forum was the right place to ask about stripping an anodized hub? The fact that it just happens to be a fixed hub (but then again, you never specified)? Perhaps if you tried the bike mechanics category, you'd get a response from someone who knew, whether that person is a fixed rider or not.

To me (us?), it's as vain a question as "what color should my messenger bag be." You want us to ogle over the fact that you bought some paul hubs...put them in a picture, post them, and I'm sure we'll say "hey, nice hubs" or something along those lines. But why in christ's name would you ask the question in this forum? Stripping and anodizing aluminum has absolutely nothing to do with FG/SS, regardless of what part it's for.

Even if english is my first language, what gives you the license to make derogatory statements (as you admitted) about my spelling? Can you explain your reasoning for all of us?

I see your line of thought. If YOU think a certain question has been asked on the "wrong" forum, then it gives you the right to make derogatory statements! How come you don't have basic communication skills? For example, explaining in the beginning that my question does not belong to this forum (or something to that effect). If you have to resort to derogatory statements to show your disapproval then you have a much bigger problem. And BTW, I am not alone on this board when I say I do not have the patience to run a spell checker (and a semantic checker) everytime I post.

I would say the license (and we can argue the semantics of your usage there all you want) stems from your inablility to spell. Period.

How does one show disapproval without a derogatory statement of some sort? So sorry your feelings got hurt. You wouldn't need spell check if you learned to spell in the first place. Guess you didn't have much patience for vocabulary tests in english class. And BTW, a semantic checker, as far as i know, would be included in a grammar check, but doesn't exist on its own. I suspect semantic is another word you weren't patient enough to learn.

Since you've admitted your thread has no place here, this thread can die. Woohoo.

Flame on.

ok, i will. please shut up. i don't care if you were simply answering his questions. i don't like your arrogance. period.