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Recently acquired at very reasonable expense a pair of Rigida SHP 60s on Veloce hubs for the Argos I'm doing up:
http://www.lfgss.com/picture.php?albumid=1312&pictureid=12269
Thought I'd service the hubs, so on goes the lockring remover:
http://www.lfgss.com/picture.php?albumid=1312&pictureid=12267
As it came apart, noticed all the loose sprockets with lettering A-H, A's all lined up..
Very little wear on the sprockets and dull matt finish, bit of research indicates these may be Record CS-8AL light alloy.
Anyway, disassembled hub, pretty grimy, at odds with the clean sprockets. The pawls and bearings inside all required thorough clean out. Re-assembling the three loosely sprung teeth on the pawl into the body required the patience of jobe... but all now spins buttery smooth
So now to the sprocket re-assembly, lining up A-A-A etc. just didn't look right:
http://www.lfgss.com/picture.php?albumid=1312&pictureid=12268
Dug around and found (thanks to retrobike) that in typical idiosyncratic Campagnolo fashion these are coded, so for any unfortunate who has this pre exa-drive set-up, here's the enigma machine key!
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b363/rks040472/8s-cassette.jpg