thisisatest wrote:Later centaur front hubs cheaped out, went to the non-adjustable steel axle type. I want to say that the rear eventually went that way as well, but my memory is fuzzy in my old age.
The older centaur ones were lighter than record, by a couple grams, due to its preload collar being plastic. Once record gained its lightweight refinements (like the steel right axle end no longer incorporating a spacer, and then adding a spacer in aluminum) it became lighter than centaur.
Centaur went to sealed bearings only after the hub shell redesign that looked like the black Record above. If they look like the silver older style Records, then they are virtually identical to Record.
Campy's own wheels in the top half of their range also use hubs with similar internals. For instance, I acquired a used set of Neutrons with shot bearings, and replaced the guts with those from some NOS Centaur hubs.