Ceramic Bearings - Worth The $$$?

[baccs9]

Are Ceramic Bearings worth the outragous price they cost? I'm thinking of buying some and would love some feedback.

Thanks

[Stampede#11]

Not for my money ... you are forever having to clean them to keep them turning well.

The best you can get IMO are the "Bones Swiss" bearings. You can get them from inlinewarehouse (link at the top left of this site). I play on some pretty dirty rinks and the bones just keep on spinning. Once you have skated on bones ... you will never want to skate on anything else.

[mcchockey9]

Swiss Bone bearing are the best....They do not have an abec rating, because they exceed all ratings. If you are looking at ceramic bones, they usually run about $240+. They worth it, but not if you don't clean them and take care of them. I use to own a roller skating rink, and wouldn't spend the money on ceramics, b/c the swiss bones are already phenominal.

Last thing, there is a slight difference between "swiss bones" and "the BSB Swiss"

[baccs9]

I ended up getting the Swiss Bones. Their pretty sweet so far. Hopefully they last without breaking down at all. Thanks for the recommendation!

Baccs9

[Stampede#11]

They don't have an ABEC rating not because they are "off the ABEC chart" or anything. It is becuase they are bearings designed & made purely for skating so ABEC rating does not apply.

I think the ABEC rating is some kind of measurement used in the manufacture of bearings that wasn't exclusive to skating bearings. This has just been applied over the years to the bearings we all skate on to distinguish a difference between them ... as I think if they tried to explain the difference on the packaging between an ABEC 3 and an ABEC 9 ... it would bore the piss out of us all .... as my post probably is all who read it!!!!

**** ... I could send a glass eye to sleep sometimes

Glad you picked up the Bones. Treat them like you would a lovely lady .... and I don't mean take them for slap up super size meal at Mac D's!

If any of my above is incorrect .. please feel free to correct me ... so I can at least regurgitate correct boring crap to people when required.

[sh105]

The higher the ABEC number the closer the tolerance is between the ball itself and the inner and outer race (the part the ball rolls on). In a non skate application the ABEC 9 is considered an instrument bearing. This has a very small clearance between the balls and the race (no play can be felt). But the problem with this is that a very small piece of dirt can cause a problem. The ABEC 3 has more clearance and dirt is not as much of a problem.

[daveisdiving]

hay guys im looking at the whats is better there only a $12.00 difernce let meknow what u guys recamend thanks dave

bones swiss labyrinth 16pk $112.00
or the
bones super swiss 6 16pk $100.00

[DannyG]

desperately attempting to avoid boredom, but here goes. This comes up here on IHC boards every 18 months or so...

The Annular Bearing Engineering Council (ABEC) scale measures tolerances, in this case, the "round trueness" of the little metal balls..."0" is "non-precision" grade, odd numbers from 1-15 measure ever decreasing variance from measurement. So, ABEC-9 are supposed to be "more round" than ABEC-3.

ABEC-3 was about the highest rating on any given part that went on the Apollo-13 moon shot, for pity's sake. Human skating performance improvement over abec-3, or maybe 5, is negligible. Do you need dynamite, or a nuclear bomb to blow up a tree stump?

The Boss brand of bearings has been considered the best for many years, because they choose to make their bearings out of the purest, highest quality alloys of materials. If you think about it, an ABEC-15 bearing made out of wood wouldn't last very long, eh?

So, in the case of human perfoemance, the best material wins out over lower grade of materials, even though they might be made to higher precision ratings.

happy holidays, go bearing shopping.

[daveisdiving]

thanks for the info but it had no anserd to what i asked i already new this so im asking witch is better of the 2 bearings the super swiss 6 or the swiss labyrinth bearings do the swiss 6 roll better and faster like they claim or dos the swiss labyrinth


THERE IS NO RATING FOR THESE BEARINGS
SO YOU R ANSER HAD NO INFO OF WHAT I NEADED AND ALREADY NO ABOUGHT RATINGS