By way of an update concerning re plating of hub barrels, I have recently acquired a number of hubs with steel barrels / alloy flanges to attempt re-plating of the barrels. Campagnolo Gran Sport - low and high flange, Fratelli Brivio - again both LF & HF (identical to Campagnolo since they made the Campy ones !), Gnutti LF, BH Airlites HF, Bayliss Continentals. All have been successfully taken apart in order to get the barrels plated. I have asked the plater to attempt to retain as much of the original barrel engraving as possible. On the BH and Bayliss barrels I suspect it will be lost (even new ones c an be very faint) on the others it should be OK. The real test comes when we need to re-assemble. Will the flanges still have the correct tolerance ? Will we be able to align the spoke holes offset correctly ? It will be interesting to see. I will post again when I have some finished, but am already of the opinion that just about any hub requiring this can be salvaged.