Tips on Bearings & Wheels when Building a Skateboard

Video Transcript

"Hello, my name is Rusell Kompinski and on behalf of Expert Village we are going to learn how to purchase and assemble a skateboard. You can see there is still quite a bit of leeway there you just want to continue tighting. If you over tight you can just crack the bearing and crack the plate right off. A little bit more. And you can see this one is well greased and you never want to spray WD-40 on your bearings because then they will dry out. This one is fairly dry and you can hear it. It sounds like it's faster than this one. This one is silent however; this one is the better bearing. Because while your driving you will glide a lot more smoothly. And the WD-40 will dry out the bearing but you can always get lubricant for the bearing which you can find at your local skate shop. I keep stressing to go to your local skate shop just because generally people that are at skate shops do skateboard and they know what they are doing. They know what products to get, they know what boards have what. There are some boards out there, although the have basically the same manufacturing methods, there are some newer boards that actually will have the very front of the board, the wood will be facing vertically as opposed to horizontally all the way around. So it will avoid chipping. So now that your wheels are in tact, it's ready to skate."