Does this sound about right?

Got them all stripped to the spindles today.

There were 2 making similar noises. The one in the video was worse. It's not a boat trailer, but water had somehow gotten into that one...wasn't a milkshake, but you could tell. Some rust/pitting on the center section of the spindle, between the 2 bearings. Rollers on the small (14125) bearing were pitted. Should have made noise, but not like that. The other noisy wheel the bearings looked fine, grease was fine. I think it was the wore-out brake magnet slapping around. On that one, I slipped the hub/drum back on after I removed all the brake hardware, and it was quiet.

Gotta decide tomorrow if that spindle is going to be OK or not....clean it up real good and get some light on it.

Not too bad....15 years on china bearings and original brake hardware.
 
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