Decent hub or cheap tat??

[pooky]

I was going through some old bits and pieces I have laying around and decided to strip the knackered rim out of one of em and maybe rebuild the hub into a decent rim. This hub was absolutely filthy so I sprayed its outer wit good old wd and its come up virtually spotless after only a few minutes cleaning. Thing is its steel ( possibly stainless?? ) and now its clean I can see the letters RJ in an oval shape engraved on it and what looks to be a date engraved/ stamped (03 94 ) on it too.
Does anybody have any idea if this is anything special or just cheap rubbish???

 

[Pickle]

Dont know about the rim, but if you have pics of the decals your after, PM member gil_m as he's the man for repro decals

 

[pooky]

Thanks for the info about the decals m8. Gil_m is already working on them for me.

Incidentally its the hub, not the rim that has all this engraving and stamping on it.
I remember the bike it was on when i got it, the forks were so rusted I couldn't even use them as leverage to align the handlebars with the front wheel as they were giving at the crown.

 

[pooky]

Not a hub that anybody knows anything about ???

 

[kaiser]

got a pic?

 

[pooky]

Here's a couple of pics, oh and now I look at it again it's KJ in the oval and not RJ. D'OH

 

[one-eyed_jim]

Could that be an ornate "T" rather than a "J"?

KT (Kun Teng) is a big Taiwanese hub manufacturer that does a lot of inexpensive OEM work and produces runs of inexpensive hubs for some of the smaller brands (On-One, Kogswell, DMR...)

Anything in steel from that date isn't likely to be a jewel. Better hubs are so cheap that I wouldn't see that as a candidate for a rebuild unless it was for a bike that needed that particular look.

 

[pooky]

Thanks for that, I was intending to use it on a wheel build for a hack that I am going to sell cheap so didn't want to put anything on it with any pedigree.