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Is it a steel race pressed into an alloy hub shell? If so, it's theoretically possible to remove it and have a replacement made, although the cost may be prohibitive. If it's a steel barrel incorporating the races pressed to alloy flanges, you'd need to dismantle the hub body and get the barrel part built up with weld and reground before attempting to press the flanges back onto the barrel. Again, prohibitively costly. I'm pretty sure there isn't enough spare metal on either design to permit a simple regrind of the existing race.

Many thanks for the pointers! Now that I have to use another hub I'll take the Powell apart and look at how it's made.

However, looking at the front, which is without its spindle at the moment, and presuming the same manufacturing process was involved as with the rear, it looks like the races are incorporated into the ends of the barrel. I don't see any way of either getting at it or removing it without dismantling the hub. As you say, 'prohibitively expensive', IF you could find someone to do it.

Thanks again!