Now that the park is thawing and you can actually skate the whole thing, I can feel that my bearings are slowing down after being run through snow and water. I followed the directions, losely, here Bones Swiss Skateboard Bearings » Skate Bearings Engineered for Skateboarding to clean them.
Everything went smooth until I took them out of the final rinse and 4 of them had the balls come out. I tried forcefully to put them back in but I was not getting anywhere. I finally decided to snap the red ring back on and stack the balls in against that and then put the middle piece in. When that worked I was able to spread the balls after that and put them back in there socket thing.
I should have taken pictures...
I noticed some of them had some rust forming so a new set for about $15 looks to be in teh future. I lubed them up with some oil from my hair clippers, so Ill see how that works out.
2 comments:
Let me tell you that your "ball" comment had my eyes popping until I realized you were (hopefully) talking about skatebording.
Rowan
I forgot to add that I tried to force the balls in around the middle hub. I stoped though because I thought the balls might go flying and bounce onto the rug...and then the balls would be lost in the rug. :o)
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