I could see ceramic coating your board if you want it to clean easy
Probably not worth the cost but if you’re feeling bougie it might be nice
Lets all just experiment and make a glass esk8
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I’ve got japanese ceramic bearings on my nazare because the original buyer decked it out with all the bells and whistles.
Can’t say I notice any difference between them and steel. If they ever need replacing, it’s gonna be $15 MBS bearings for me.
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When steel bearings fail, they typically get squeaky and/or tight and lose some freeroll.
When ceramic bearings fail, they typically explode and disintegrate.
Gradual versus rapid, I like the gradual and seemingly less unsafe failure modes of the steel varieties.
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Any examples of this happening?
It happened to me a while back.
608’s?
Yes, 608. Ceramic balls and ceramic races, the balls cracked and disintegrated. Once one ball did, they all did in that bearing.
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nothing on video but I’ve had REDS ceramics, Boa Black Belly ceramics, and even Zealous ceramics disintegrate on me. Those are the only ones I’ve tried.
One of those times the rear wheel just came off and rolled ahead of me and for a minute I didn’t realize it was mine because I was leaning on my front front, but then I noticed one motor was whining so I looked back saw my wheel was missing. The other two times it was a front wheel and I ate street.
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+1 for zealous.
The inbuilt spacer does make them a little more difficult to remove, but in the same breath, they’re easier to install cos you don’t have to swear at and threaten the little free floating spacer to get onto the fucking axle.
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Damn. You and @b264 got me thinking I have an unnecessary point of failure on my lightning powered murder board. I have an extra set of mbs steel bearings I can swap in anyway. Someone on facebook will be stoked to get a deal on barely used Lacroix Premium Japanese bearings
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I just rotate the wheel on the axle until the spacer slides onto it perfectly. This method has yet to ever fail me for any size of axle (assuming matching bearings and spacers) and even with spacers that are too small.
If the headache is too much, use a screwdriver as an intermediate axle, then load it onto the truck in one clean slide.
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Why build an esk8 when you could just buy a Hoyt or DBS or Trampa/Lacroix/BioBoard? /S
Why build an esk8 when you could buy an EUC?
You can just use the axle on your truck to easily pry them out… super easy and no risk of hitting your fingers or damaging the bearings.
It would be RIP ~$80 now
Also thanks for all the anti ceramic bearings comments. I remembered reading that they were not good for esk8 years ago and haven’t bothered checking to see if that is still true. I didn’t buy any but I feel bad that I can’t throw more money at my local skate shop since they sell mostly standard skateboard stuff and then a few pre-made long boards. They don’t even stock long board trucks 
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This absolutely works, but can damage your threads. I use an old hanger for it instead of sacrificing a good one
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I think I would dude…
I have not had a bearing explode on me, but I had a wheel core explode and it threw me down right quick…
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