Is this Inter7 hub worth saving or destined for the bin?

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Wez

I appreciate the honest review and thank you for taking the time.

Since posting this I have completed the tear down, the internals are just as tarnished, but nothing appears broken. I even managed to remove all the rusty looking pins from the planetary bits.

I'm going to have a go at cleaning and building it back up, might need to invest in some evapo-rust or similar. Someone on reddit did suggest wet tumbling the parts but that means building another thing! 😆.

I'm only planning to put it on a low milage, beater type project so the sub-par-ness won't worry me.

especially that internal ring

Which ring are you referring to? and do you happen to know if there are any specific areas that I should focus the cleaning effort?

Cheers.

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lynx in reply to @Wez

At a guess you are in the US.

Though thought I'd answered earlier. I'd soak the mechanism in a cheap automatic fluid. Using a soft toothbrush to clean the mechanism up. Once clean take apart the mech and clean everything in the autofluid but it back together relube and see what happens.

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Wez in reply to @lynx

Thanks for this, I’m in the UK!

I’ve already dismantled the whole thing so I’m going to hit it with some cleaner and scrubbing - see where we end up.

I have the exploded view and someone on Reddit shared a tear down and re build video so here’s hoping 🙏

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