Step 1: Secure your work space. First things first, we need to pick out a space for you to take your wheels and ultimately your bearings off.
If you have a nice flat workbench in your garage or backyard, that would be ideal. You can also go the skate rat route and clean your bearings on the floor. Maybe your local skatepark parking lot or wherever you have a flat concrete surface to get the job done. If you are cleaning your bearings indoors or want to reduce the mess, lay a towel down and have plenty of paper towels at hand.
If you are inexperienced or underage, please consult with an adult before handling any sharp objects or tools. Step 2: Remove wheels and bearings. Welcome to the brunt work of cleaning your skateboard bearings.
To clean your bearings, you obviously have to take them out of the wheels. Remove the bolts from your wheels using your skate tool or wrench, then position the wheel on the mouth of the bearing at a 45 degree angle to produce a crowbar leverage effect.
Holding the wheel in your hand, use your body weight and a little elbow grease to leverage the bearing out of the wheel.
Repeat until all 8 bearings have been removed, placing them in a secure area or container. Step 3: Take off shields. By now, you should be amazed at the dirt, gunk and grime your bearings have amassed. You probably have a good amount of it on your hands. This is why we have the paper towels. Use a paper towel to clean off the gunk on the outside of your bearing shields, so when we remove them, we get a much deeper cleaning.
Using a razor blade is the most common practice but any object you are able to use to get under the bearing shield is applicable. By popping the shields off of each bearing, we expose the abec-balls inside. This is where the most damaging debris will be and ultimately where our cleaning will produce the most benefit. It should be noted, spinning the bearing before proceeding to step 4 will help you gauge afterwards how much the cleaning actually helped.
If you attempt to spin the bearing with no success, you may need new bearings all together. Either way, cleaning them is worth a shot. Thus, onto our next step. How to make a skateboard rail: DIY grind rail tips How to make your own skateboarding grind rail. Step 4. Soak bearings in isopropyl alcohol. The whole point of cleaning your bearings is to prolong the life of them and reduce your costs of purchasing new ones. Then soak your bearings in acetone, nail-polish remover or rubbing alcohol.
Spin them dry and make sure all the dust and dirt are out. WD40 or others like it will dry out your bearings and attract dust and dirt. Skip to content Technology. April 24, Joe Ford. Table of Contents. 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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