Italian front hubs?

[dougfisk]

I see a lot of Campagnolo and other brand Italian hubs on EBAY lately that have a lot innate good style. Some are a bare shell and have no axles, cones, bearings, or nuts. Most come with a hollow axle and guts meant for a quick release skewer. Does anyone know what it takes to set up with a plain vanilla old fashioned solid axle and hex nuts? What fits & works? :?:

 

[Bendix]

I see a lot of Campagnolo and other brand Italian hubs on EBAY lately that have a lot innate good style. Some are a bare shell and have no axles, cones, bearings, or nuts. Most come with a hollow axle and guts meant for a quick release skewer. Does anyone know what it takes to set up with a plain vanilla old fashioned solid axle and hex nuts? What fits & works? :?:

even campagnolo small parts are expensive. maybe search specifically for track hubs? miche hubs have the look and are cheaper than campy.

 

[c.p.odom]

Campagnolo track hubs are worth a premium at this point, sort of the holy grail for the fixie crowd. A Campy road hub (hollow axle) can be converted to a track hub (solid axle) by just replacing the axle. You will need to source an axle and track nuts. Campy uses a 9MM X 26 tpi thread on the front. Do not confuse these with the more common 9MM X 1MM axles used by most Japanese hubs.

 

[dougfisk]

A Campy road hub (hollow axle) can be converted to a track hub (solid axle) by just replacing the axle. You will need to source an axle and track nuts. Campy uses a 9MM X 26 tpi thread on the front. Do not confuse these with the more common 9MM X 1MM axles used by most Japanese hubs.

Do you think there is a way to replace all internals, axle, nuts, cones, & bearings with something that is cheap and available and will work with the campy races and dust cover?

 

[c.p.odom]

Sure, If you are talking about a hub that has no internals but still has the dust caps then many cone and ball axle sets will function adequately. As long as you new axle set is the same diameter, built for a hub with the same size and number of bearings and the cone does not have a larger diameter than the Campy cone it should run OK. You may have some issues with the over lock nut width, but this is solvable.