Except, that's why you almost never see an SA hub with a rusty shell, the leaking oil coating the shell and keeping the plating intact! David Feldman
> Covering two topics and in the spirit of what is turning out to be
"British
> Week" ;
>
> S-A Hubs are notorious for leaking out most of the oil put into them
during
> servicing. Those hubs fitted with the sprung loaded flip-top cap seem
worse
> than others and were subjected to some "shop" modifications to cut the
> leakage down (David Rattray's company fitted a slightly larger version of
> the Tecalmit nipple in place of the flip-top cap type) and various
> homebrewed tips appeared to try and prevent it - One was to stuff the oil
> cap full of cotton wool ! I'm not sure in what year it happened but S-A
> themselves finally found the solution - Do away with the oil port
altogether
> !
>
> Bob Reid
> Stonehaven
> Scotland.