Keep them clean Exploded View of bearing. Tags steve-caballero brad-mcclain lance-mountain chris-joslin andy-anderson jordan-hoffart charlie-blair evan-smith ryan-decenzo zach-doelling. Take care of them! ABEC vs.
Join the List. Follow bonesbearings. If you skate downhill without lubricated bearings, they can even seize up and cause a bad accident. Apply two to three small drops onto the steel balls inside the bearings. Do not cover the bearings in lubricant as it will make a huge mess and attract dirt to the bearing when you skate. After applying lubricant, carefully press each bearing shield back into place on each bearing. Again, be careful not to bend the shields. There are several ways to press each bearing back into your wheels.
One of the simplest ways is to place a bearing shield side down onto your truck axle and then place the wheel over the axle and onto the bearing. Press down evenly on the wheel and the bearing underneath should pop into place inside the wheel. Repeat this process for all bearings.
Then, when you screw on the axle nut, you can tighten it down until the bearings have been fully pressed into place. Remember to install axle washers between the bearing and axle nut before tightening the nut down. Be careful not to damage the bearing shields with your tool. Finally, it took some work, but your skateboard bearings are now spinning and looking like new again!
The bearings now have fresh lubricant that still needs to spread around inside the bearing. After about minutes, you should feel the bearings start to break in and skate faster.
A fun way to break them in is to go skate a bowl or down a hill! In that case, check out our selection of premium-quality skateboard bearings in the Cruisin City online shop! Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Keep on cruising: How to clean skateboard bearings. More posts.
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Obviously for this use, the less water the better, read the label. I'd be tempted to use denatured alcohol ethanol mixed with methanol as it would contain no water. Regardless, one could gently heat with a hair dryer after cleaning to ensure all solvent and any water is fully dried prior to lubricating. I did know that the water can be bad, but the reason I use isopropyl alcohol is because you don't have to worry about further clean-up as the alcohol evaporates off of the bearings.
Plus, the lubricant I use has a water-propellant property the water will actually be forced out of the bearings after about 5 minutes of riding. I have also been using this system for years without any adverse effect that I can see. However, I DO replace my bearings after about a year or two, so I don't know if that's why. Thanks so much for reading and replying! Okay, that makes perfect sense. Really, the true test of your method is if it works for you--which it obviously does!
It's a good point about replacing them every year or two, most of the time when I see a bad bearing come over the counter, it's spent several years in service. Also, I deal with industrial application bearings, which see an entirely different service life from skateboard bearings.
Skateboard bearings see high shock loads, unsealed exposure to water, twisting in the housing, and high levels of vibration. The same bearings are used in a lot of hand tools and small electric motors, where they can last for years and years without any sort of intervention, but they aren't exposed to anything like the same sort of treatment as the ones used in skateboards.
I don't see any problem with the water content in isopropyl. It's not going to rust your bearings. It will evaporate. Over here isopropyl is mosty Anyway they are crap for cleaning grease and so the dirt in the grease too.
I use diesel. You could use kerosene if you are rich. By Commander Shepard Follow. More by the author:. About: If you use "irregardless" in an argument, I've already assumed I'm correct.
More About Commander Shepard ». Another crappy video to tell you how to put your wheels back together.
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