RE: Blokart Bearings, salt water and sand

For my bearings (I use standard stainless steel for the beach), I pop the seals when I am cleaning the kart with the water blaster, and do the bearings too, air blast them (I use compressed air from a dive tank) and then re-lube them with Innox. Also, putting them in a can of machine oil is favoured by some.

CRC 565 is good, but I have a better one too – will post what is called when I get home next week.

Grant

-----Original Message-----
From: jimi [mailto:(Address removed)]
Sent: Friday, 12 January 2007 7:05 a.m.
To: (Address removed)
Subject: RE: [blokart] Blokart Bearings, salt water and sand

However, if you’re getting sand, salt and grit into your mast-crane-bearing……..you’re just doing too many wipe-outs.

Now there’s yet another can-of-bearing-worms –

As per prevailing Oz Best Mate advice – Super Glue in the Mast Crane Bearing, as in all bearings, is the Oz way to go – Oz Mates help their mates, right;

In Asia we’re running with a rare oil won from the Cod-Reef-Critter – CRC-565 “Marine-Grade” ;

Or are you cutting your Mast Crane Bearing Seals too, Mike??

Have a “Best Sealed” 2007,

Jimi

-----Original Message-----
From: Mr Blokart America[mailto:michaelcmoody@cs..com]
Sent: 2006.12.16 Sat 10:45 a.m.
To: BLOKART-NZ
Subject: [blokart] Blokart Bearings, salt water and sand

My recent trip to the EU Champs was my first multi-day racing experience on a beach. The very fine sand and salt water seemed to get into the bearings within minutes and turn the lube into a brown muddy goo. As a result, I had to clean out and relubricate the bearings at the end of each race day. I almost would have preferred to put a clean set in after each race but that was not realistic.. How do you regular "beach bum blokarters" handle this?

Cheers,
MM

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