Originally Posted by
eR1c
...bearings,
Thanks for the helpful advice (Granpa, Sakadahi and Axle 182).
I have been using Nylon bearings and have been trying to clean them (blast with air, then regrease). Guess this is not good. Doh! Going to switch to metal sealed bearings. Also the advice about using shims ...I have not been doing that for my Mini ...but will try it out. This is super helpful info (why I love these boards)!
I've tried several different methods but it took a lot of motor spray and time to get it back to where a new one was. Even so, the balls wear anyway and was not worth my time.
The amount of spray I had to use did not economically make sense either, so I consider ball bearings a wear item like tires, and just replacing them.
Amazon has the nylon bearings going for like $10-11 for 10pcs.
A can of motorspray costs me about $10+ shipped. I rather just buy new bearings.
