Hi there!
My son is heavily into his scooters and as such my garage is often a workshop for various jobs for him and his friends. A few weeks ago he swapped wheels with a lad down the local skatepark, he brought the scooter back to me to check over and i noticed the wheel (front) wasn't spinning right. I popped the bearings out and noticed there wasn't a spacer inbetween them - when tightened this had totally ****ed the bearings.
The next day I went to out local skate shop to see if they had a replacement spacer and a pair of new bearings. The girl was nice enough to hand over a free spacer she had in her toolkit, but told me that you don't need a spacer on the front wheel. After a small *facepalm* I forgot about this and repaired my boys scooter.
Today some of my sons friends turned up after some maintenance - one lad asking if I could tighten his front wheel. As I tightened it it stopped free spinning, so I had a look and sure enough it had no spacer. Turns out the boy got this wheel from the same local shop - it was a metal core wheel and the bearing were really tightly fitted (I had a bit of a bash at them with hammer and screwdriver but didn't want to damage them.)
I'm almost 100% sure you need a spacer inbetween the bearings on a front wheel? And would like to let my local shop know so nobody else has any problems (as aside from this issue they are a really good little shop.)
If I could get some back up from you experts on this forum then I could link the shop owners to it (or if they were right and I am wrong feel free to flame me!) Also if anyone has any advice on how to remove tight bearings from a metal core wheel fitted without spacer then it'd help (the bearings are APEC 5)
My son is heavily into his scooters and as such my garage is often a workshop for various jobs for him and his friends. A few weeks ago he swapped wheels with a lad down the local skatepark, he brought the scooter back to me to check over and i noticed the wheel (front) wasn't spinning right. I popped the bearings out and noticed there wasn't a spacer inbetween them - when tightened this had totally ****ed the bearings.
The next day I went to out local skate shop to see if they had a replacement spacer and a pair of new bearings. The girl was nice enough to hand over a free spacer she had in her toolkit, but told me that you don't need a spacer on the front wheel. After a small *facepalm* I forgot about this and repaired my boys scooter.
Today some of my sons friends turned up after some maintenance - one lad asking if I could tighten his front wheel. As I tightened it it stopped free spinning, so I had a look and sure enough it had no spacer. Turns out the boy got this wheel from the same local shop - it was a metal core wheel and the bearing were really tightly fitted (I had a bit of a bash at them with hammer and screwdriver but didn't want to damage them.)
I'm almost 100% sure you need a spacer inbetween the bearings on a front wheel? And would like to let my local shop know so nobody else has any problems (as aside from this issue they are a really good little shop.)
If I could get some back up from you experts on this forum then I could link the shop owners to it (or if they were right and I am wrong feel free to flame me!) Also if anyone has any advice on how to remove tight bearings from a metal core wheel fitted without spacer then it'd help (the bearings are APEC 5)
