Spent as nice evening with our co-op's volunteers de-mystifying that which is the Sturmey Archer AW hub and the little quirks that make working on old Raleighs such a joy.
Tore down one hub dated 1960 and it really demonstrated at how, after 52 years of use, you can open up an SA AW and all the parts will be clean and shiny with hardly a speck of dirt save for where some of the factory grease trapped some, and see that despite some apparent wear to the smaller pawls that the rest of the hub was in like new condition.
We will get back together on Saturday and do some hub rebuilding... our shop's kit was missing a few little things like pawl springs so I will bring some of those from my shop... I have a hub that needs to be torn down and looked over and my thought is that it has a broken pawl spring or a badly worn low gear pawl because of some lag during engagement in first gear.