Bearing idea.

[BrandonD]

So I was wondering if instead of buying new wheels. Making bearing that font into ovalised wheels. Would it work?

 

[Dewey]

wait what do you mean

 

[Robert]

Probably not because the bearing need to be perfectly round to spin right.

 

[Blake]

To be honest this is one of the silliest ideas I've ever heard. Wheels don't ovalise exactly the same way every time. It's a better idea to design wheels to be less prone to ovalising.

 

[caseyhendrix:)]

damn protos

 

[R-Dubya]

If you're really really ambitious, you could get bearings that are just slightly larger than your current ones (I mean like custom from a bearing company) and mill your bearing slots out to match. That's the only way I could see this idea working.

 

[caseyhendrix:)]

they should just make the inside of wheels splinned and the outside of bearing and oversized so you wouldnt have to worry about this? yah?

 

[Chris Vincent]

what..?

 

[Michael Aylsworth]

someone needs to make wheels that fit bigger bearings and 3/8 axles. they wouldn't ovalize as easy and you wouldn't break axles.

 

[Derek Seay]

Phantom made some wheels that used like 1 1/2 in. bearings

 

[DavidBryson]

someone needs to make wheels that fit bigger bearings and 3/8 axles. they wouldn't ovalize as easy and you wouldn't break axles.

this

 

[Chris36]

it seem like an okay idea

 

[R-Dubya]

How would bigger bearings make the wheels any less prone to ovalizing? The bearing slots would still be the same thickness, with the same tolerances for the bearings, and made out of the same material. Thicker axles would be nice though.

 

[Michael Aylsworth]

How would bigger bearings make the wheels any less prone to ovalizing? The bearing slots would still be the same thickness, with the same tolerances for the bearings, and made out of the same material. Thicker axles would be nice though.

because a bigger diameter bearing would spread the weight out better thus less ovalizing, if someone did the 3/8 axles it would be just like bmx and 14mm axles, just have the option for both.

 

[Connorh333]

Or you could just make thick bearing slots...