Cleaning your bearings

[Brian Boston]

Heres a good way to clean out your bearings, i just did it the other day and it works nice. I read this on a skate forum.

1. Get a water bottle (like Deer Park) that large enough to fit bearings into the top, if its not big enough just cut the top off

2. Put your bearings in the bottle

3. Get some windex and pour it into the bottle so that its a little bit over the bearings

4. Put it in the microwave (no its not going to spark all over)

5. Set the time to 30 seconds. Start it and watch the bottle closley, if you see the Windex foaming up, open the microwave and let it cool down, then start i up again, repeat this until the 30 seconds are up.

6. THE BOTTLE WILL BE VERY HOT. It will look like it shurnk, take it out after it cooled. DO NOT SNIFF IT (i did it, got Windex up my nose and it burned so bad). Dump the windex out and put your bearings onto a paper towl and clean them off. All the dirt and grime should be out of it.

7. Oil them up (dont use WD-40) and put them back in your wheels!

It works great if you do it right..

Heres a video of them in the microwave to show they dont spark up haha, download.
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[Kenny O.]

how'd u figure that out? to much free time or somethin

 

[Brian Boston]

Heres a good way to clean out your bearings, i just did it the other day and it works nice. I read this on a skate forum.

Yeah.. also if you ever have bearings stuck in a wheel (usually skate wheels) if you spray windex on them they come right out.

 

[Kenny Giguere]

YEAH JOSH, IN YOUR FACE

 

[the_SD_local]

I still have yet to read anything about putting them in the microwave...

 

[Brian Boston]

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[Miles Quirk]

lmao that was so random.. i wnated something to explode or the bottle to just melt

 

[Thomas Agasid]

yeah i saw that on perception a while back..i was going to do it but my parents would kill me if i broken the new microwave...so im looking for the old one
and what bearings did you use Bri? Stock? or like skate?
and do you think this is better than the alcohol thing josh did?

 

[brandon kilbury]

what can i use to oil it..i have this speed cream shit for bearings that i got a while back and when i just hold the bearing they spin like crazy, but then when i put them in my wheels they squeak and dont roll for shit

 

[Brian Boston]

yeah i saw that on perception a while back..i was going to do it but my parents would kill me if i broken the new microwave...so im looking for the old one
and what bearings did you use Bri? Stock? or like skate?
and do you think this is better than the alcohol thing josh did?

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[brandon kilbury]

my friend tyler uses vegatable oil on shit, would that work?

 

[the_SD_local]

my friend tyler uses vegatable oil on shit, would that work?

That is probably the worst idea yet. Vegetable oil is for cooking... not machinery... it gums up and gets sticky after awhile. It may be faat at first but keep it away from your scooter.

 

[Thomas Agasid]

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oh ok im going to try it once i find the old microwave

 

[Brian Boston]

Why not just wait till your parents arent home? Its not gonna blow up, watch the video.

 

[johnmattes]

good find bri ill try it tomorow

 

[Thomas Agasid]

i will do it sometime im just to pussy and lazy to do it

 

[brandon kilbury]

pussy of what....id do it right now but my wheels roll fine, its just good to know how to do that for future problems.thanks bri

 

[Tyler Hale]

im brandons friend tyler, ive been using vegetable oil for over a year and it works fine, it hasnt gotten sticky yet, and mine still roll better than brandons

 

[Gnome]

hey, does the lid on the bottle gotta be closed?

 

[Kenny O.]

wtf are you talking about? lol