Cleaning up

Didn't realise until I went to write this that I had owned the ACS Skatemates since October last year.
As I had some spare time today I thought I'd finally get around to doing some work on them.

Made a few discoveries..

Stripped the wheels off to discover that the ACS 430 hangers have fully threaded axles, interesting, maybe it was a way of using up old stock of unsold hangers.
Might come in handy for another project that I'll probably never finish.

Cleaned them up abit with some engine degreaser and a toothbrush, came up looking good, the quality of the casting leaves something to be desired though, never noticed back in the day, maybe they were this bad but I'm now more conscious of such things.

I then wondered why I was bothering to clean them up if I wasn't going to use the hangers but did all four anyway.

The bushings were actually in good shape and seemed usable after a wash in soapy water.

The front two pivot cups had turned waxy and disintegrated, have replaced them with some I had.

Found a couple of 651 hangers that I have and offered them up, the kingpins stick out far too much, same as on the 430's, after tapping a rear kingpin out I then discovered that my GrindKing kingpins were too short, the baseplate on the rear is very thick. I then also discovered that reversing the kingpin doesn't really make a lot of difference in the height. A real danger of hanging up with these, the older longer GK KP's might be alright, have some somewhere but probably fitted to some trucks.

Bearing are soaking in degreaser for now but will probably be replaced anyway.

Old mates, new mates, Skate Mates

Have been having the urge to get back on some quad skates again for a while.

These popped up on eBay and I had to have them.

ACS Skate Mates

Will swap the 430 hangers out for 651's unless I can get hold of four 580 hangers cheap.

Perfect size for my Sk8-Hi's, need a bit of tidying up and new toe stops and bushings.

Wheels and bearings will probably change too.

Green Kryps? 

Oh and probably fit inverted  Grind King type kingpins. 

Here's an old advert from back in the day. 

Just got to figure out fixing the boots to the plates.

Sizzle

Remember these with the funky wheel release sytem?



I saw some rollerskates in a charity shop a few weeks back, wish I'd bought them now, they only wanted £5 for them.



Yep Mattel Sunrunners, same truck and wheel design.

Fred Blood

The rollerskating legend with a frontside air at Woodward in 2004.

Quad update...

Fitted the 651 copy hangers and the Alva wheels from the 8 wheeler (for now).
Took them out for a spin, might need harder bushings and maybe some shorter kingpins (or inverted ones) I think.

Oh and here's a quick film of my first time on tranny wearing skates in about 30 years.





Maybe I should have worn some kneepads.

Quads Wrangled

Got me some free quad skates from my local Freecycle group.

Project quad skates will be documented fully on here, I already have some ACS651 copy hangers which will fit straight on.