How do I restore/rebuild Campy Hubs

So I got my mitts on a pair of 1976 Campagnolo Record hubs in fairly good used condition

Now I would like to dismantle them
Clean them
re-assemble with new bearing and grease

So what would be the correct tools to dismantle them with'
the best way to clean them (for example can I soak them in white spirit and then apply metal polish)
What about reassembly what grease and bearings do I use

Any links - handy tips would be much appreciated

perhaps these are of use?

Hub overhaul

Park Tool with images

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?

this is all really helpful stuff

it has taken me a while to track down a pair of nice hubs

so I don't want to bugger them up 'restoring' them

I'll be posting before and after photos on my "MERCIAN build" thread

Buy new bearings if you're overhauling hubs. Bearings cost bugger all.

If you have the original bearings in the hub, they may be in a retainer.

Just count the number of bearings on one side of each hub. Pop one of the bearings out and take it to a shop to get the right size, if you don't have a way of measuring them. Can't remember what size Campy uses off the top of my head, but its likely they have something like 1/4" bearings in the rear and 7/32" in the front for record hubs.

Bearings come in different 'grades' as well; the grade measures the roundness of the bearing. Ideally you'll want to get Grade 25/50 bearings but most shops only have Grade 100. Try and avoid anything above this.

One nice cheap present to yourself is something like this, which is a really quick way of measuring bearing size. Handy for wheelbuilding too etc.

If you're going to ride these hubs a lot, you really should get good at overhauling them (at least once every six months) and you can buy bearings in bulk to really make the cost of the overhaul miniscule.

I had a feeling that the bearing might be different sizes front & back but really I did not know

so a bearing gauge is a handy tip

sjscycles has cone spanners and a bearing gauge I'll start with that

as to where I got'em

I got a mate who has a house full of bicycle and bicycle bits

he quite literally has a box full of these hubs

unfortunately most of them are french threaded

so it is near impossible to find a sprocket

as no one makes french threaded sprockets anymore

well I don't think they do

he had one set of english threaded hubs

so I swopped these for a pace carbon fork that I wasn't using

on ebay NOS & boxed I have seen these hubs go for $400

these went yesterday

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=009&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3APIC&viewitem=&item=190128299300&rd=1&rd=1

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I have seen a few sets of Campy track hubs for sale either used or NOS.

The only problem is that they tend not to have the second thread for a lock ring.

Is the idea of using these on a conversion suicide?

And does anyone have an idea of the chainline?

those aren't track hubs they're just old freewheel hubs. you'll see spacers on the drive side. you can run them as suicide hubs but you'll have to respace all the cones and locknuts and spacers and all that.
personally i wouldn't recommend running them suicide just leave them to what they are - freewheel road hubs for those old road bike restoration projects.