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| 70sSkater |
 Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 12:18 am |
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Joined: 30 Mar 2004
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Location: Milwaukee, WI
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| Is it possible to restore vintage bearings? I seem to remember reading a Skateboarder Mag article back in the 70s that gave a step by step for repacking bearings. Would the seals get wasted in such a procedure? Does anyone know what tools are needed, grease to use, etc.? And here's a dumb question. I remember removing bearings by prying them out with the threaded end of the trucks. Is there a better way to remove the bearings from the wheels? Thanks. |
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| The Boneless-one |
| Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 7:02 am |
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| My opinion is that a bearing will last if you use spacers. If you have a set of used "vintage" bearings i wouldn't go thru the trouble of restoring them, maybe just cleaning but that's it. However if you have a unused set of vintages just keep them the way they are and don't ride them. |
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| 70sSkater |
| Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 10:13 pm |
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| Thanks for the reply. I was at my local skate shop today and the guy there had the same opinion. I brought in an old Road Rider 2 wheel with practically seized bearings. The guy thought I was holding a roller skate wheel and told me he didn't have any bearings for it. I finally convinced him it was indeed a skateboard wheel. Anyway, he told me just to buy new bearings. But stubborn nostalgic fool that I am, I want to try cleaning and greasing a set of these old bearings and see if they will work. I did find a bearing cleaning kit from Pleasure Tool Bearings that looks like it may work well. I may give it a try on some of these old bearings that are otherwise useless and see what happens. Also, for anyone interested, I found that Bones has a decent website on bearing maintenance, http://bonesbearings.com/main_maintenance.html. |
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| Eggman-stepford13 |
| Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 3:35 am |
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Location: Los Angeles
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Keep an eye out.You see bearings once in awhile.I got a shitload of NMB bearings a couple of months ago.Now,the website doesn't sell them anymore.Either I bought them all,or they realized old fucks like me do not want to deal with maintaining bearings.These Powell bearings are nice and fast,but I don't want to work on them,tinkering like some dimented freak.I don't ever remember a bearing seizing on me while riding.Maybe I was a pussy,I must stop now,I'm DIZZY...
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| holyghost |
| Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 11:24 pm |
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I do clean old bearings. You wanna get all the crap out in paint thinner and either an ultrasonic cleaner, or my method, a coffee can with a piece of screen that keeps the bearings off the bottom. After all the shit has rinsed out and you can spin them, get em on a soft wire wheels to clean them thoroughly (obviously only on silver shielded bearings).
They should be unseized and clean, but there will be metal to metal inside. I squirt them with speed cream till they spin quiet again. It ain't grease packed anymore but they will be fresh, depending on their previous use. Removing shields doesn't seem like a good idea. I have heard of repcking bearings on roller skates, but they have open backs. And roller skaters don't exactly hit the kind of terrain boarders do so it's a different bearing for a different game. |
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| dangersticks |
| Posted: Wed May 19, 2004 7:01 pm |
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Joined: 17 May 2003
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Location: Bombora's, California
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I brought a set of old Hoover-IKS bearings back for my old SC 5-Ply (Bennetts, RR2's) with my ultrasonic cleaner, mineral spirits, isopropyl alcohol, and a hair dryer.
I could not believe how much junk came out those 8 little bearings.
The Coby ultrasonic cleaner all over eBay works well - you just have to leave the lid open, and cycle the cleaner through about 15 3-minute cycles. |
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