Evaluating Hubs
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Evaluating hubs requires that you already know how to evaluate and adjust hub bearings. If you don't, you can ask a key volunteer or staff member to teach you, but it's something you learn through hands on practice. Once you know how, the process is very simple: evaluating the bearings is the most important part.
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[edit] Evaluating the bearings
If you feel that the bearings will adjust well enough to make the hub worth being built into a wheel, it is worth keeping. Even if they're not, if the cones are in good shape the hub is worth having around - the cones might be usable as replacements.
[edit] Flange damage
If one of the flange holes is ripped, the hub should be kept as parts if its bearings are in good shape.
[edit] Bent axles
Hubs with bent axles can also be kept for spare parts.
[edit] Hubs to throw out
Pretty much any hub with a steel body is worthless; it won't be used for spare parts, and it won't be built into a wheel. Also worthless is any hub with ruined bearing surfaces, for the same reason.
