[CR]Campy hub race removal and replacement

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From: <emeneff@earthlink.net>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 18:18:53 -0800
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Subject: [CR]Campy hub race removal and replacement

Jon and the list,

Many years ago I remember asking John Sipay from Campy USA about this. He told me to use a Ten-Penny nail as a punch and to simply tap around the hub race from the inside. I've done that and it was not a big job or particularly difficult. You can purchase a small piece of PVC pipe at the hardware store to use as a support for the flange.

You can of course make it a big complicated deal if you want to "overthink" it.

Pressing the cups back in was done with some brass washers and the old axle/cones. The cups were hardened and ground - brass washers won't hurt them in the least.

I never did the deal with heating up the hub shell. Never needed to - I guess it wouldn't hurt to wave a propane torch gently around the shell if you want to do that before you remove/replace.

If you do not have a propane torch - don't sweat it (old plumbers joke . . . groan).

I have a Nouvo Cheapo . . . er, I mean Nouvo Tipo that I have to do soon,
Regards,
Mike Fabian
San Francisco