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Old 01-19-22, 06:15 PM
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okay... gotta ask... did you run into a boat??

as far as damage... there's almost nothing inside these hubs except for bearings, magnets, wire, and a steel flux path. The only thing I can imagine getting damaged would be the terminals and the magnet wire that connects to them. If they were damaged, I suspect it would not be trivial to fix it.

edit: by "contactless", I assume you mean the type that has electrical connections through the axle and to the dropouts. No idea how hard it would be to damage the wire connection to these either, but it would be that much harder to get into the hub and fiddle with it. I'm wondering if you've verified that there wasn't damage to the electrical connections at the fork and the associated wiring?? A multimeter ought to do the job, but there's a chance that clamping a wheel in the fork might change things. Intermittent connections are not unheard of when things get cracked. I've spent a lot of time tracking down cracked solder connections or cracked traces in circuit boards.

Steve in Peoria

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