found this out today it works great!
you need:
nail polish remover
white spirit
paper towels
cotton buds
oil, wd40 ect.

first off you need to take your bearings out of your wheels, the easiest way to do this is to push it out though by putting your tech deck tool through the back of the wheel and poking the bearing out.
next, put the wheel itself to one side, and pour a little bit of white spirit into a bottle top or something similar, enough to cover the bearings completely, now put it somewhere that it will not be knocked over or something.
next, if your wheels have any glue residue or similar things, take a cotton bud and dip the end in nail polish remover, rub the glue or whatever is on your wheel with it until it starts to weaken, then take a paper towel and rub it off, if this does not work soak the wheels in nail polish remover for about 5 minutes, then rub with a paper towel and dry them out.
now take your bearings out and dry them, you now need to oil them again, take another bottle top or similar and repeat the same process with oil as you did with white spirit, leave them there for about 5 minutes.
when that 5 minutes is up, take them out and leave them for a few minutes, now dry them gently with a paper towel and put them back into your wheels.

it made my winklers go from this:



to this:




sorry for the bad pics of what they are like now, ill get better ones tomorrow in the day light

*i am not responsible for any damage that could possibly occur to your wheels or bearings, i only just found this out today so i am not sure if it only works with some wheels or not, idk

gonna do this tmoz such a good tut

Nice I might have to start cleaning my JT wheels like this before I sell them

bump. better pics are up

sick tutorial danny, im sure this will be helpfull to many people.....your winks look the biz now

thats awesome i gotz 2 try that.

I would like to add that lubricating with WD-40 is NOT good for your bearings. WD-40 contains more solvents than lubricating fluids. It therefore lubricates not very well. Right after the application of WD-40 your bearings will roll smooth, but they will start to attract dirt which will soon ruin your bearings. Better is to use some kind of sewing machine oil or any other thin oil ment for lubricating purposes. This will atract less dirt en will keep your bearings smoother for a longer period.

Regards,
Vincent

^ this straight up... I know its a bump but it still giving information... I used wd 40 and my wheels pick up dirt so today I used a spirit lol.. what coincidence.

Taking bearing out from the wheel is hard, I test in china wheels , I accidently break the bearings.

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