Sunday, May 26, 2024

Minding your bearings

Wheels of Happiness

Lately I have turned my attention to bearings:   

1.   Numbers:
      6805 -  ID 25 mm, used in Shimano BB and Campy cranks (their bearing is installed inside instead        of    at bb

      6806  - ID is 30 mm used at 386, BB30  BB.   Preferred thickness is 6 mm.

      6000 and 6001 for front and rear hubs 10 and 12mm id

      6802  ID is 15 mm and used for some higher ends hubs

2.  Bearing maintenance

     The casual, light maintenance is peeling off the RS (rubber seals) spraying the interior with                      degrease and then putting light oil and grease, then resealing

     If there is looseness or movement the whole bearing is replaced.  Bearings are cheap, and some goe
     for P100/10 pcs.  Then the expensive ones costing P400 are ceramic.  

    But I found out lately that the bearings can be disassembled and races separated and plastic cages
    removed and cleaned thoroughly.  Each bearings cleaned and then restored  It takes a lot of patience
    to reassemble

3.  Bearing remover:

    1.  Usual tap tap whack on the bearing with the screw driver.  But bearings are fragile

    2.  Bearing pusher produced by Ztto and Mozqec but only good for 25 and 30 bb only
         No puller for hub bearings with id from 10 to 15mm

   3.  The bearing puller for these are the split bolt,   used to pull blind bearings for motorcycle

4.  Bearing press fit

     Essentially a threaded rod with drifts from both side.   Can be good for all sizes of bearing

     Vise, or light tap using old bearing can achieve same purpose

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