Skate board wheel material
Skate board wheel material
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Does anybody know what material skateboard wheels are made of ?.
I want to design some sliding gear for heavy doors, and the material skate board wheels are made of are of interest to me. If only I knew what material was used....
I want to design some sliding gear for heavy doors, and the material skate board wheels are made of are of interest to me. If only I knew what material was used....






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Would a skateboard wheel be injection moulded or would it be turned from rod?
(I 'd guess they would be made by turning, looking at the grooves on the outer surface)
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However, consider other materials such as acetal or nylon 6 if you would like to avoid permanent deformation. A heavy sliding door might cause creep to occur in materials such as TPU.
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Nylon and acetal are very commonly used in sliding door rollers.
Acetal is the hardest with the most creep resistance, and therefore will tend to hold its shape better under constant load. Injection moulded PU will be the worst from the point of view of retaining shape, with nylon somewhere in between.
PU will run quiet where the acetal might be noisy, once again with the nylon somewhere in between.
The cast PU will distort under load, but will recover better over time vs the thermoplastic materials.
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