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john the pom · Joined: 30 May 2005 Posts: 434 Location: central coast nsw

hats off to all the crazy crew that skated and pushed hard in these conditions today . totally nuts

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Bugs · Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 10:17 pm Post subject:

The whole day was a bit surreal. Hard to believe it actually happened. Yes, it really was that wet, and these guys were charging!

Thanks John.
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msw · Joined: 20 Feb 2007 Posts: 358 Location: sydney

Hey is that BRING IT Daddow with a Shadow !!!!

Robbo · Joined: 01 Feb 2007 Posts: 395 Location: Darlington, Sydney

Picked up my board today and my wheels don't work anymore Crying or Very sad

8 completely seized bearings free to good home Crying or Very sad

Skull has Returned · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 12:19 pm Post subject:

You guys are sick puppies, Love it Wink

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haggy · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 727 Location: sydney

the tracks look so rad!!

mosu101 · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 1:55 pm Post subject:

agreed on the tracks and 10 out of 10 in dedication.

Just two question, doesnt this trash your bearings? And when you replace your bearings can I have the old ones please?
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GroundHangers · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 3:43 pm Post subject:

Johnny and i had to pull our whole boards down. I only had 2 bearings of the Moc 9's seize but i managed to recover them, they are know where near what they used to be. JG's Builtins came up ok. He did suggest to spray some WD in them till the morning, probably should have listened but, they will race again anyway.
Those who have spherical bearings in there trucks should pay a lot of attention in that area as mine had slight rust particles forming. It took me around 3 hours to totally clean everything, what a nightmare! But shit it was worth it.

Hop · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 6:06 pm Post subject:

I pulled down the ramon this afternoon. There was fine dirt in everything. In the hanger there was sand!! Cleaned it all - meth'o'd. Bearings cleaned in acetone. I have pleasure tools ceramics and they looked fine but the acetone was brown grey after a soaking. One bearing was seized on the axel - spot rust on all the axels.
I stupidity rode two boards - so that one will get a pull down tomorrow - plus Jackson will be pulling down the winning monster board - pavel roadster with pvd.
Definitely worth it. When will that ever happen again !!!!

mosu101 · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 7:35 pm Post subject:

it will be interesting to see if anyone notices a degredation in the performance of their bearings after such a treatment.

Ive found that there are 2 options once bearings have been hammered by rain

1)replace them
2) if they are ceramic , disassemble the bearings take inner and outer race heat to incandesence under a propane tourch (oxy might be to high a temperature) quench in oil then polish using a felt wheel and jewellers cutting (polishing) compound probable only takes about 4 or 5 hours
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fitz · Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 776 Location: Sydney

mosu101 · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 9:22 pm Post subject:

hadnt thought of that one Embarassed

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nathan · Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Posts: 235

got my board out of the car only an hour ago!!!, only one siezed rockin ron, the rest are sweet, the radikals front bearing cruched with sand and shit, pulled it down quickly and have got in there with acetone and lube looking pretty good now

nathan · Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Posts: 235

Awesome photos by the way Jon as usual, must have been fun hangin out in the raindown the end of the course!!