Build a Skateboard: Put Bearings in Wheels

Video Transcript

"The next step is putting your bearings into your wheels. Here I chose active bearings. These are Abeck 5 bearings. This is what I use. Pretty good price. There's 8 bearing in each bearing set, 2 for each wheel. Get your bearings out. Find your wheels, select wheels. Some bearings have two sides. One will have like an open side; one has like a side, a shinier side to show out. These ones are both the same so it doesn't matte what faces down. Here at active we have a bearing press so it makes it pretty for us. Put one bearing down. Put the wheel on top. Put your second bearing on top of the wheel. Fold it down, line it up and pull. And then your bearing's in the wheel. This is the pretty standard way for skate shops to put in wheels but if you don't have a bearing press and you're at home you can always use the axle of your truck. This is if you don't have a bearing press. This is what I use at my house. So you got your bearing. You got your wheel and your second bearing, and you kind of just push it on like this. And that's how you do it there."