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bearings
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On 6/30/2000
Jake
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What steps do you recommend for maintaining bearings and how often should I do this?
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Swiss vs. China's
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On 6/30/2000 DOOBIE
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Everyone with China Bones-
That's why you buy the Swiss. St least with my experiences with them, they have been: Great. Durable. Fast. Smooth. And definetly worth the extra few bucks... I bought one set 3 years ago of the swiss, my friend at the same time bought China's. He's gone through at least four sets of bearings... and I've had my swiss in there the whole time... Although I recently replaced them... I sold them to my brother for a couple of dollars and they are serving him fine... and as I have said many times before, you need to keep your bearings clean and maintained...
Bomb hills in third world countries.
---DOOBIE
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8 mm spacer
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On 6/30/2000 billy bob
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noticed the @ longskate.com they are under fluid...
enjoy!
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sheilds and balls flying
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On 6/30/2000
hugh r
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If the bearings came out, then it sounds as if they were already broken. Time for new ones... HR
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chinas
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On 6/30/2000 ben
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the crown holds the balls in placer. the shield just keeps dirt out and stuff - alot of bearings, like FKDs really go WAY faster if you remove the shields, you just get more dirt in them then. make sure you use spacers, although even if i don't have spacers for my Krypto route 70s, i've never broken a single china bone. i've raced black panthers and lucky 7s and kicked their a$$e$. they are really good cheap bearings, close to as fast as the swiss, but not as quiet and smooth. i love 'em
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chinas
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On 6/29/2000
jonnieo
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Why do you remove the red shield from the bearings? Doesn't that hold the balls in?
The other day I was just cruising down the street (flat) and all of the sudden my wheel came off and my truck dropped down on the ground. The red shield came out of one bearing(china bones), the balls flew out and the wheel came off. I have no clue why it happened.
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CHINA BONES
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On 6/29/2000
Sean2k
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all right, china bones are fast and affordable. if you remove the red shield and put 3 in 1 house-hold oil on them, they will last forever and go really really fast. they kick some harcore ass. damn straight. Sean2k
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China Bones
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On 6/28/2000
Jake
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I got some China Bones and put them on 68mm 90a wheels and they're cool, except one of my wheels doesn't turn half as well. What should I do? Should I just loosen the wheel, or should I do something else?
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Bearing
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On 6/28/2000
Bob
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I like Fluid Mad Max bearings. I also like China Bones -- they are good, and come with spacers. The fluid bearings are very nice.
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Bearings!
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On 6/28/2000
Aimar
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Hi longskaters! I have a little problem. I crashed my bearings and now I have to buy new ones. What about them, how long do they last and what about the best producers.
Thanks.
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Thrust bearing failure
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On 6/27/2000 Herbn
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it becomes a stack of washers.
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Fast Bearings
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On 6/26/2000
DOOBIE
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I prefer to use Bones swiss. They are fast and durable and cheap compared to ceramix and mini-misers. if on a budjet go for these. If not go for Mini miser ceramix by ninja. look at their site on the links page.
Ride fast
DOOBIE
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Fastest bearing
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On 6/26/2000 racer
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What is the fastest bearing out and what is the price. Cheers
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swiss
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On 6/23/2000 Ralf Washiongton
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swissies are abec 5, but it's completely irrelevant!!!! sk8 hard
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abec rating on swiss
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On 6/23/2000 Sarah
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umm...abec doesn't matter AT ALL unless you are using your bearings on extremely high speed machinery. check out the links page-the link that says after it "good bearings FAQ"
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graphite
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On 6/23/2000
rob k
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i haven't put graphite in my bearings yet, but i put it on the springs of my mountain board, and it eliminated all of the noise when i lean. so far, good stuff.
later,
rob
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Thrust bearings
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On 6/23/2000 Herbn
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If the outer race does not touch the thrust bearing ,then the sideload will tighten up the bearings. I guess they would still work,but the inner race would be spinning on the axle.At first I thought the thrust bearing would have to eliminate side load on the regular bearing to work but that may not be the case.By the way a thrust bearing is like two washers with round grooves for the bearings to roll in and a plastic washer(delrin probabely) with holes for the bearings (bearing seperator)hope you can visualize that.
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thrust bearings
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On 6/23/2000
hugh r
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I am following the post as closely as my tiny brain allows, but am just a bit confused about thrust bearings. If I understood correctly, they would be used in the places that washers are currently being used... if so I would ask the following questions:
What advantage would this give you.
What does the thrust bearing actually do.
What would be the ramification of a thrust bearing failure.
Where do you get these bearings.
Thanks guys...
Side note: Graphite testers... how's it holding up?
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Trust bearings?
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On 6/22/2000
lugedemon3
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These sound like they dirrive from an interesting concept, where might i be able to get these?
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More thrust brg
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On 6/22/2000
Jonas
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Herbn...you would be the one to know.The idea for thrust bearings wasn't my idea.A lugeracer passed the info to me saying it was one of the best kept secrets in the sport(I also believe it's in a well published Luge book?).Anyway,on paper it seems to me that it would decrease friction slightly when carving on the unloaded sides if the wheel as it would allow the inner race of the bearing to spin on the axle against the thrust bearing...or am I wrong?What do you think Herb?The race of the thrust bearing is smaller than the outer race of the wheel bearing,but not by much.
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last quesiton
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On 6/22/2000 rex again
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i meant if you are going for speed on you longboard which
bearing would be good
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bearing question
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On 6/22/2000 rex
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if you are going with your longoard what kind of bearing
would be good. and does anyone know the abec rating for
swiss bearings
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Thrust bearings
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On 6/22/2000 Herbn
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To work as a thrustbearing what you describe would have to touch the outer bearing race,giving you three bearings run in parallel as opposed to spinnng axles, kind of like series.This would give extra friction and extra innertia,harder to start up.Under ideal situations were the thrust bearing does not touch the outer race but gets so close that any flex in the bearing causes contact you have a very critical tolerance,with questions like how much side flex do you want,constant contact(to often,very slight side loads) and you have sluggishness like example one,to much clearence and the thrust bearings would not be doing much,so you're just carring unnecessary stuff around.Randal Randal,Randal,Randal,Randal ,Randal,Randal, Randal,Randal,Randal,thanks to Adam Spelchek:)
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Graphite
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On 6/21/2000 lugedemon3
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Yea, my results are the same as jonnieo's, at first it sucked, then after i spun them a while, it got better.
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graphite
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On 6/21/2000
rob k
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i will be trying the graphite soon too. i will let everbody know my experiences as soon as it happens.
later,
rob
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