Originally Posted by
PolishGuy
AL NZ- You may want to look into pulling the SW mechanicals from the hub shell and slipping in an AW gearset in it's place. Should be a fairly straighforward swap. I think Sheldon Brown or Tony Hadland had info on doing this. I put a FW into an AW shell until I got new wheels built and the FW worked just fine. Hopefully you will have the same results. PG.
Won't work. The SW shell is smaller. So much smaller you can't reuse the spokes to lace an AW into your wheel.
58 6 would be late in the production run so Al may be OK if he strips his hub and thoroughly cleans it. SWs could not tolerate anything sticky on the pawls.
See;
http://my.ohio.voyager.net/~bdhayes/sa/sw.htm for good info.