This is how you disassemble roller blade or skate board bearings, clean them and put them back together. These bearings are Bones Swiss Bearings, they are ea…
Correct Way To Clean Rollerblade Skate And Skateboard Bearings
July 21st, 2013 by admin
This is how you disassemble roller blade or skate board bearings, clean them and put them back together. These bearings are Bones Swiss Bearings, they are ea…
Don’t forget to use a rag to clean the inner and outer races of the bearings after you shake them in acetone, you will notice more dirt come off, it is an essential step before putting them back together.
Great tutorial! It really helped
Ha! Glad I could help.
can i use citrus cleaner
No, the best way to do this is to shake them vigorously in Acetone and wipe the inner and out races with a rag. Citrus cleaner is not abrasive enough to remove the old grease/oil/dirt. Acetone isn’t expensive and can be bought almost anywhere.
How many of the bearing do you do at one time?
All of them, I put the entire thing, inner and out races and balls into a power ade container and shake them for about 5 minutes.
You say balls a lot
Aye uhh…you from Jersey? thanks for the tips btw
From Minnesota ha glad I could help
Thanks
Hi, what kind of oil should we use?
There is something called speed cream which I recommend but you just need a little bit. Otherwise you can use what I’m using here, which is a standard oil I got at a sports store. Use an oil designed for bearings or speed cream.
So i’m following step by step and then 8:25 you tell me that “i’ve just ruined these by taking them apart”. WTF man I guess i’ve ruined mine. Next time start by saying that kinda stuff instead of at the end, after.
Did you watch the whole vid? If you have metal covers on them they are (sealed) and non serviceable, I said that very clearly in the vid… Watch the whole thing first, if you have sealed bearings they are non serviceable. But I think I said in the video but if I didn’t you can actually buy some rubber bearing covers and put those on your sealed bearings, I’ve done this before and those covers are cheap.
acetone disolves rubber and nylon thats why people don’t usually like to put the sheilds and what not int eh acetone.
I’ve doin’ it for years without consequence, it’s harmless.
hey um i put my bearings in a cup of wd-40 to soak with out doing anything to them or opening them before seeing this video they are abec 5s what will happen to them?
Nothin much, wd40 is not designed to get hot or work as a lubricant. wd40 is designed to evaporate. What you did is mostly harmless, the main ingredient in wd40 is fish oil so… I guess once you start rolling your just going to burn it off and leave the bearings dry. Do your bearings have metal covers? Or rubber? It’s best to get serviceable bearings.
From what I hear, its purpose is to get out excess water.
Don’t think its theoretically lube, but I use it anyhow. ( Alongside with oil )