how do you change chassis?

**eiop** · 03-27-2004, 12:51 AM

how do you change chassis on your blades?

**defencegirl22** · 03-27-2004, 08:37 AM

have someone take out the rivets. (try a pro shop. they have a special machine for this job)

**showtime89** · 03-27-2004, 09:17 AM

yeah, take it to a pro shop. Remember every time new holes are created in the footbed, you lower the structural integrity of it and are more likely to have rivets pull out. If they fit the same holes, that's good.

Ron Sardina
SUNY Brockport Roller Hockey Club
President and Captain 1995-1999
#89

**DannyG** · 03-27-2004, 10:03 AM

however...

Once you get the rivets pulled (any shoe repair shop can also do this), you can experiment. Actually drilling holes and using flathead carriage bolts works extremely well.

I have replaced chassis three times/three years, with no problems...

<font color=purple>DannyG</font color=purple>

**MDE3** · 03-28-2004, 11:41 AM

Graf uses a screw and grommet which locks into the sole of the skates, and these work great, as you do not need to hold the screw down while you tighten the nut from the other side. They sell these directly from Graf, but I am sure they are available somewhere else. The grommets have little lugs on the side to prevent the grommet from turning in the sole while you tighten the screws.

**sghcky13** · 03-29-2004, 01:01 PM

and using the original holes is not necessarily a good idea. you could wear out the holes and the chasis will fall off.....an we all know that is bad

**eiop** · 03-29-2004, 09:53 PM

so I guess I shouldn't change the chassis a lot unless I get some sort of special nut & bolt thing?

**MDE3** · 03-29-2004, 10:09 PM

You can certainly use nuts and screws as Danny G suggested, but the grommets and screws look a bit better and there is less problem with pulling through. However if you take it to a proshop who does chassis, they will happily just replace the rivets with fresh ones, and there is really nothing wrong with that either.

**defencegirl22** · 03-30-2004, 07:50 PM

You should also change the rivets after a year or two. One time I went to a free-skate and two of the rivets fell off! I looked at the boot, and the sweat from my feet rusted the rivets, which made them pop off.

Laura Lischwe
#22 Defenseman
Carolina Sportsplex Tsunami

**MDE3** · 03-31-2004, 12:24 PM

My son has the same problem, and it really doesn't matter whether they are rivets or screws with grommets, or screws with nuts...the causticity of the perspiration can cause that with anything...One other tip...plug the old holes with epoxy, so the perspiration does not drip down through the old holes, onto the wheels and bearings.