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If they're anything like the 80s record hubs I had then it's pretty straightforward - you just need some cone spanners and take your time, work in a clean area (you may laugh but I know someone who took his loose bearing bb apart in the garden, on the lawn - great place to drop a bearing!).
I like using citrus degreasers as they're quite powerful - just soak for a few minutes, rinse, repeat... Never tried actually polishing the bearing surfaces with metal polish. Are you going to install new ball bearings? Anyway, for the final reassembly, I like to use one of those cleaning cloths you get when you buy spectacles to give a final dry and wipe of bearings and races as they don't leave any fibres behind. Obviously, you don't want any degreaser at all left in the hub when you regrease them.
Once it's all back together, the final adjustments of the locknuts can be a bit fiddly as you
want to aim for just tiniest amount of play in the bearings when everything is tighted down off the bike - at least for quick release axles, as the axle is compress when you tighten the lever. I guess for solid axles you don't need to do that. Anyway, the more cone spanners the better here as you want to know exactly where each cone and locknut is on both sides so you can make fine adjustments.
Maybe this is all obvious stuff...
btw, there are some record track hubs on ebay at the moment at just over 100 pounds with 3 days to go. Are yours similar to those?