Full Frontal Ceramic Bearing P*rn

[Bushman]

http://www.vxb.com/page/bearings/PRO...arings/Kit7166



inner & outer race FULL CERAMIC!!!!


DROOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!!!!!!! but the cost.....

[AGENT WD-40]

40 bucks EACH?!? That would definitely put a hole in my wallet

[easy]

One safety slide, one flat bottom landing, one bomb down a rough road and... kaboom $160 up in splintered, high tech pottery smoke. Hard is okay for the balls, but it just means brittle everywhere else.

[Bushman]

nope....those bearings are freaking tough. you can hit the balls with a hammewr and they dent the steel of the hammer. Same with the cages.

the Ceramic in these bearings is NOT the same as pottery ceramic .... totally different structure.

but the cost in CDN dollars including shipping and duties is over 500 CDN $ for a set of 8

[chaindog]

he realizes that. hes just saying that these will break becasue they werent designed to take impacts such as the vibration of a rough road or a slide

[Ravn]

They have been around for inline skating for quite a while.. and they even exist in a cageless 11-ball version.



However they're sold at 39 EUR (45 USD) a piece.

[enjoisoad]

he realizes that. hes just saying that these will break becasue they werent designed to take impacts such as the vibration of a rough road or a slide

Yea that can happen with any bearing. Its just more of a finacial loss this way.

[silversurfer]

If I were going to spend that much $ on bearings, I'd get NiNjA Ceramix.

Only the balls are ceramic, silicone nitride to be precise.

The white balls are not the same quality as the gray silicone nitrade balls that ron, bones and ninja use, from what I understand.

[TheFuzz]

for 500 CAD I could buy two complete longboard setups with some really nice crap on them. I thinkfor now I'll just wait for the market to go down on the goodies just like everything else that used to be expensive.

[skateORdie]

why is the cagless 11 ball a concept not used for skating? wouldn't do trick skating on it. those look super fast but how do they work without the cage? neat idea. i want to make a set of biltin ceramics some day, that will be my ceramic bearing project.

[Crappysurfer]

[pyrate]

cool post, but $40 each?
good to know theyre out there, but for me theres a limit. and i own 3 sets of ceramics. 2 bones, 1 rons.
im sure that ceramic can stand up to the abuse, industrial ceramics are used in high temp, high breaking strength applications, usually to replace metal parts under extreme heat (furnaces), friction (bearings) or impact (bulletproof chestplates) and some have incredibly high shatter and breaking points.
so bearng manufacturers are going back to raceless huh? interesting. the oldest skate bearings (integrated in the wheels) were essentially raceless, but i thought the reason for races was that when modern bearings were created with tight tolerances the balls "jammed" each other. i cant see in the pic any mechanism to stop the balls from bunching up. they seem a bit separated but by what if there's no race? is the shield holding them in place?

[R]

I'll trust ceramic balls but ceramic races, no. I'll easily change my mind tho, if someone here can test them out for at least 500 hours and then testify that they are legitimate. I can imagine how low maintenence, low heat, and fast rolling these things must be.