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Thanks for all the tips but I've decided to bin the old Phil hub and get a new Phil flip/flop, the chainline is out by about an INCH!!! Apart from sticking a 5 speed freewheel on there and taking out the sprockets there isn't really any other solution... It turns out the Specialised track converter was designed for three spoke wheels and has a completely different thread so that won't work either... Might've been fine if I'd gone for a frame with narrower dropouts, 130mm seems stupidly wide for a track (ish) bike... Anyway, just waiting for the Phil now... Bah!
The hub's a late 70s/early 80s 126mm road hub with a thread for a 5 speed on it... I already changed the width to 130mm by swapping the end cap over, probably would've been better off sending it back to Phil and getting them to lengthen the axle on the non-drive side and shortening the drive side end cap... Guess hindsight is 20/20... You live and learn... Etc. etc. :-S