How To Bring Your Bearings Back To Life

How To Clean Your Skateboard Bearings!

Shout out to Local Joe on YouTube for the Jamie Foy Windex hack. It seemed to have worked out pretty well. I think acetone or rubbing alcohol would work just fine tho.

Are you gonna try cleaning your bearings?
Just make sure you don’t use water!

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How To Clean Your Bearings!

Edit: It’s recommended to add speed cream or lube after you clean them. I completely forgot to add that part in this video! They will still work the same without it, but they just might not last as long. Some people don’t use it if they decide pop the shields out. So it completely up to you!

Shout out to Local Joe on YouTube for the Jamie Foy Windex hack. It seemed to have worked out pretty well. I think acetone or rubbing alcohol would work just fine tho.

Are you gonna try cleaning your bearings?
Just make sure you don’t use water!

#skate #skateboard #skateboarding

[sonsysmokes]

You definitely need to get some bearing lube. There gonna be dried out in an hour of skating and be even more raspy.

[Error-]

"How to bring your bearings back to life"

And then kill them.

[acecaldwell]

Never reinstall without ball bearing covers like this guy did unless you mean to undo all the cleaning you just did immediately

[hufman]

1. Dropping the bearings in acetone and letting them sit, does nothing. Instead of waiting 20min, just spin them around and agitate with a toothbrush.
2. Use spacers and washers. Keeping the nut loose will only hurt, free spin does not equal real world. As soon as you ride and apply any side force the bearing will bend and wear, slowing you down.
3. Add lube after
I'm a car mechanic and longtime skateboarder/longboarder.

[lilalo]

Thank you for this!! I don't personally skate, but my sister is learning to and this is really helpful :) keep doing what you love, dude!

[killer_boss]

Best Loop I ever seen on youtube bro, much respect

[hufman]

How to actually clean your bearings: Dunk them in motor oil. No seriously, spin them in the oil, and even use a toothbrush to agitate everything. The motor oil will remove all the gunk and remain to keep lubricating. No harmful chemicals, or extra steps. Take it back to chemistry class, like disolves like: oil dissolves oil. Adding alcohol, or soap will only damage the metal.

[alexgraves]

So I work with big bearings everyday. I think this is a good idea, but I think reusing the shields and putting a dab of grease wouldn’t hurt. Good looks 💯

[eviethekiwi]

as an engineer that does a lot of bearing jobs i can tell you it’s a good idea to regularly re-lube your bearing **BEFORE** they get rumbly/noisy. once they start, they’re already f*cked and ideally should be replaced. obviously most of yall aren’t going to replace them which is totally understandable cus good bearings aren’t cheap.
also do what this says every time they get wet but also re-lube them either by packing some new grease in, or some heavy oil (300 weight or higher)

most of this is too much of a hassle to do so its whatever but its just an idea pf what an ideal maintenance plan looks like xd

[vedantkhodke]

Two more tips:

1) Make sure to check for all the bearings!!! If you see some missing or broken, you will need to add those balls in there.

2) Lube it up after drying or in worst cases use grece (cheap alternative, never had an issue)

[redkritter]

This fucks up your bearings bro. Little speed cream on them works great afterward. That’s a crucial step.

[Smegma_pirate]

Most people would re grease them, but this guy is like 12 years old, he still has time to learn about grease

[normified]

It also doesn't hurt to rinse out any cleaner with a quick rinse of water, so long as you IMMEDIATELY dry them with like a blowdrier so the water can't make the metal rust.

[Adna]

I remember cleaning my skate board when I was 5 as well.

[ashermorales]

After cleaning, blow them out with an air compression and put some thin grease or oil in them. Should get rid of the “hissing” sound and they’ll be even smoother

[dince]

Quick tip, bearings usually dont cost that much especially these small ones, if you get luck you might see some for maybe a Dollar or less, btw the number of the bearing is on the plastic ring on the outside that protects the bearings from dirt and water etc...

[danielwhite]

yo respect for the wheelspin edited to the loop nicely.

[chroniclesofapipemaker]

Damn I'm miss those days I'm old asf now but I remember soaking ours in rubbing alcohol and scrubbing them with a toofbrush then a couple drops of sewing machine oil

[tcop]

I don't skateboard sadly, but I'll definitely use this on my longboard and inline skate wheels! Was literally just sanding down a floor at my local skate city so my skate bearings are super dusty...