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So that was the good news... now for the bad. Basically the drive side bearings are shot
The drive side cone is pitted quite badly, and basically they are near impossible to find new anymore. Also sadly as well the drive side cup is pitted too, this was quite hard to photograph but there is a decent pit in there... I will state for the record that @lot14 was completely honest and I bought these at the risk that they would be like this.
The non-drive side is fine though, perfectly smooth with no pits on cups or cone
It's these two parts that need replacing. The other parts like the pawls and springs you can still get, as well as the NDS Cone and cups.
So need to think about what my options are. It's near impossible to buy replacement cones/cups these days, the only option is to source a NOS hub for donor parts as these two parts are shared with a lot of the older 8/9sp hubs. Or alternately cut my losses and try to find different hubs, the later model '99-'06 with the oversized axles are much better in terms of parts availability and are a fair bit lighter.
However these seem like really special hubs as they are the last of the traditional Campagnolo hubs with threaded axles and adjusted with cone wrenches. After this generation they went to oversized 15mm axles and floating cup/cones which don't need a press to install. However these hubs were all clear anodised from what I can tell and look chunkier, so not as traditional.