Removing bearing's from wheels

[Michael9 57]

I am a noob when talking about inline skates, so if anyone can help me out or redirect me to a topic with any helpful information that would be great. So here is my situation, I broke one of my wheels and i would like to remove the bearing before i throw it out. So how would I go about doing that. Thanks for the help, Michael9

[starscream 0]

I am a noob when talking about inline skates, so if anyone can help me out or redirect me to a topic with any helpful information that would be great. So here is my situation, I broke one of my wheels and i would like to remove the bearing before i throw it out. So how would I go about doing that. Thanks for the help, Michael9

sometimes you can pop them out by pushing on the axle and punching it out the other side.

I find that inserting an allen wrench into the center of the axle and prying works well too for stubborn wheels.

This all assuming that you don't have a skate tool with a bearing pusher ;)

[davezilla 0]

[bombit 0]

I've been using my Kryptonics Kryp-tool for years and yesterday I switched to floating spacers on my Eframes and the Kryp-tool doesn't work for popping the bearings out anymore. Is the Sonic tool the only way to go for floating spacers?

[strosedefence34 175]

I have been useing an older version of what davezilla posted for years and it works great

[rhymeandsteal 0]

I've been using my Kryptonics Kryp-tool for years and yesterday I switched to floating spacers on my Eframes and the Kryp-tool doesn't work for popping the bearings out anymore. Is the Sonic tool the only way to go for floating spacers?

i ran into the same problem the other day. i just slid the spacer so it wasn't centered, and pushed on that, in turn forcing the bearing out. i would guess it's not the best thing you can do for your bearings though.

[hockey_is_hard 0]

Getting bearings out that are next to floating spacers are easy. Get something round (either the end of an alan/hex wrench tool if you have one or a pretty big screw driver) and insert it into one bearing (but not into the floating spacer). Pry up a little bit, which will move one edge of the bearing out a little bit. Rotate the wheel and keep doing it, so you slowly wiggle the bearing out. Once you get one out, the other comes out easily.