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Joined: 15 Jun 2008 Posts: 1391 Location: UK

How do you get the ball bearings out of coin-axled megas?

I often take the axle out for cleaning but this time I want to see how it all works inside, but wasn't sure how to get the bearings to come out of the wheel?

Team Heelys - Northeast Joined: 28 May 2007 Posts: 781

You have to get a screwdriver or you can use the bigger part of the axel ...

Use one of them and get underneath the bearing and push up . It might require a little bit of strenth.

Guest

getting the bearings out is the easy part. actually taking the bearing apart and cleaning each ball...that's the fun/not so fun part of the bearing. but if u are ever interested in that...let us know before u go destroying ur bearings and having to buy new ones...=)

Joined: 15 Jun 2008 Posts: 1391 Location: UK

Thanks for the advice guys, will give it a try later - my first goal is just to be able to fit good bearings like bones reds etc.

@Big Mac: lol at you quoting me in your siggy - yes, I have since been informed that a lot of youngsters fib about their age on their youtube profiles Very Happy

People often wondered why I couldn't tell from her being quite small, but size is hard to judge unless the person is standing next to a ruler, and I'm 30 and fit clothes for 13-14 age group, so you can understand my mistake, but I've learned my lesson: never trust what people say on the internet LOL. (j/k)

Joined: 15 Jun 2008 Posts: 1391 Location: UK

Yeaahh.. looks like those bearings were never meant to be cleaned.

Good luck putting them back together.

OTOH you can just pry the rubber off your Reds from now on. Smile

Guest

ya, those types of bearings really aren't meant to be cleaned. they are crap in my opinion. the ones i own have this plastic piece that you can take out to clean the balls and put back in w/o worrying about how to keep the balls in place. it's pretty easy getting the balls out once you've done it once...but give it a whirl once u get that c ring out and let us know how it went. you wont be able to put that one back together, just to let you know. so i would suggest making sure you either have another set of bearings lying around of you take apart a bearing that can be put back together. =)

that silver thingy in the middle is teh spacer, its not needed nor does it affect the ride. It just makes the wheel heavier/gives the wheel the clicky noise when you walk.

and tee-hee, you have girl megas xD

i traded my cousin for her girl megas because mine had gotten air bubbles. anyone wondering what girl megas are, theyre the megas that have the sparkles on the insides and have abec 5 bearings and only come on girl models (unless yours got swapped out) a theory on why they come with abec 5's is because hsl doenst want girls to go fast xD

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oh oh oh...that piece. i was talkin about the spacer for the ball bearings. my bad. i misread what you were talkin about

Joined: 15 Jun 2008 Posts: 1391 Location: UK

they put em there so that everyone knows its you when you walk down a hallway, lol.

and i have girl megas too, they were my cousins who i traded to because she likes the noise air bubbles make...hers were like brand new too from her glitz's, they ride real good too, i us em for like rain and stuff.

Joined: 15 Jun 2008 Posts: 1391 Location: UK

Team Heelys - Northeast Joined: 15 Dec 2006 Posts: 1803

You don't get the little ball bearings out. You just clean bearing with it in (so long as the ball bearings are exposed and can be accessed).

Forget about the bearings getting wet. Skating on wet surfaces has a lot graver consequences than rusting bearings.

My .02
MDHZ