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

I was given a fire damaged bike.

From the outside the wheels looked ok but after dismantling the rear hub it looks like they’ve been sitting in water for a long time.

The bearing races look pretty shot, and the internals very rusty. It’s currently having a good soak but I’m 98% sure this needs to go in the bin.

Looking for qualified opinions if you know anything about these. Cheers.

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I’d scrap it, unless you’re up for a sub-par wheel or a restoration project. Potentially both.

You can likely get it to work with lots of degreaser, a couple of wire brushes, fine sandpaper, and plenty of elbow grease, maybe a few replacement bits, but it’ll take a while. It could be that you get halfway thru and realise a part is stuffed, or you finish it and it’s corroded just enough to make things not work, especially that internal ring.

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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Clean & lube, full send

😆 🤘

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.

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 🙏

Good luck with the reassembly. Don't leave it too long since you pulled it apart...

I'll try! 😬