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Update for the records: Crassly (bless him) sent me a new transfer spring, as well as the two serrated components associated with it. (Cone?). After I swapped them with the existing ones in the hub, I went for a ride and it was b-e-a-utiful. Completely cured. So I don't know if it was purely the...

Dougfisk, that sounds like a plan. I did note that the serrated 'splines' of that cone were a little polished as compared to the rest of the component when I was stripping it down. So I can't work out if it's designed to grip or slip. I'm thinking of emery papering the shine off it AND greasing...

The hub was completely dismantled and cleaned by me when I first got the bike last month. I never tried it before doing so, because it was very old and unlubricated and i didn't want to grind it. then I reassembled it with grease/oil as advised elsewhere on this forum. So I don't know if it was...

Bodge, I will definitely show you mine once I've got my hands on my daughter's camera. You'll probably tell me it's not a Columbia, or it's a terrible mongrel.

I've been sniffing around the forum trying to find an answer without success. So before I waste any more time, can someone tell me if: A New Departure hub should be completely smooth in operation? Should it seamlessly switch between power, coast, and breaking without ANY clunking, or is there...

A new recruit here. I live in the PROPER Warwick, in England! I'm 49, wife and three daughters,and work in a foundry. I have the usual motley collection of bicycles, now including a 1940's skip tooth Columbia in a very rat state. She's the most beautiful thing in the world, like the spirit of...