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OK, so I have like 3 pairs of BDs laying around my house (no, I am not going to sell them just yet...) and I was wondering if anyone has ever tried to collapse the bond so they can both spin independantly.

I've been contemplating the idea, in which I wouldn't need any extra materials per my knowledge, unless the wheel wouldn't want to stay in place with the axle...

Joined: 15 Jun 2008 Posts: 1391 Location: UK

I've contemplated this too. . . the only problem i can foresee is keeping the halves of the plastic wheel separate, as they would want to slide together if they could - and I don't mean the bearings moving in with them (this would be easy to stop with a small spacer or whatever, I mean the bearings staying where they are, and the plastic parts sliding closer - unless the inside of a BD is different to a standard mega or could be glued or something? (I only have 2 pairs of BDs so I don't want to open one up until I need to)

I was thinking of that too, and using a large washer inbetween the spacer and the wheel to keep the wheel housed without moving...

Joined: 15 Jun 2008 Posts: 1391 Location: UK

sounds ok - but would the washer rub on the wheels? (I don't know for sure because, as I said, I haven't disassembled my BD's yet.

But obviously any rubbing would be counterproductive: after long use it might wear away bits of the wheel etc, or get hot?

that is true... hmmm... I guess its time for some more engineering

Won't work.

Big deuce is liek a screw one side is the actually like edge and the other part is the edge with the middle part completely attached. Once you wear em out you can actually unscrew it. It wont free spin though because it would make the diameter bigger and the middle is the only thing holding em apart. im trying to find my oldest ones to take a picture.

So if you can get the two sides to unscrew from the center piece and then place 2 small wheel bearing spacers in between with a washer, that should cause enough grip to actuall make them spin independantly without jarring

Naw, remove the spacer holding the wheels together completely in the BDs, so you just have the two wheels.

Then at this point you put two solid bearing spacers from the Small wheels...

Or

You could cut the BD spacer in half, and place a spacer in between the two halves so they down slide around in the gap. This would cause them to both stay on its individual spacer, plus spin independant

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

If you guys get it working - I'd live to try that.

There WAS a pair like that. David Cooper has it.

MDHZ

Team Heelys - Midwest Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 8388607

Yeah, Nikoli did that to his BDs