DIY wheelchair repair

In times of crisis, not every family can bear very high costs for purchasing goods for a baby. And the fact that many children's things do not wear out during the time that someone's baby grows up helps out here. Therefore, you can buy or even receive free of charge not only clothes for babies, but also a crib, playpen or stroller.

It is not uncommon to see advertisements that someone is selling only stroller wheels. This may mean that the child's parents once purchased a spare kit, and all because it is the wheel part that wears out so much that they have to be replaced with new ones.

Therefore, when purchasing used strollers, it is imperative to look at how good each unit is, presented:

• axis;
• wheel;
• bearing
• a lock (bushing) that prevents the wheel from falling off the axle.

If the axle is worn off, then it is better to refuse to buy a stroller, because this element can rarely be replaced. Most often, the axle is welded to the frame and repairs can cost more than the purchase itself.

If the wheel has a lot of play, then 100% of the problem is in the bearing.

If the wheel itself has a defect, for example, a curved rim, then you will need a spare. Alternatively, you can use wheels from another used stroller. But it is safer and easier to order a wheel in our store.

Pull the wheel towards you. If it is not fixed on the axle and is removed, then it is the retainer (sleeve) that is also out of order, which is also in our store. In many strollers it is a wire product, a specially formed spring with a retractable antenna or a hairpin. Often these clips wear off over time, and then the wheels for strollers can fall off every now and then along the way. But such an accident is surmountable, so you can buy a stroller, but it will not be superfluous to ask for a lower price.

In the article, we found out that the problem with falling off wheels is related to the wear of their bushings. This is a consumable item that is not expensive to replace. They usually wear out within 2-3 years after purchasing a stroller. If you bought a stroller from your hands, then it may be worth looking for a spare part in our catalog of spare parts for baby strollers right now.

The gluing methods are exactly the same as for a conventional wheel. Alternatively, you can simply take it to a tire maker and there professionals will glue you with Tip-Top glue. If the wheel is without a tube, you can buy a set and use the instructions to repair the hole, but why pay big money for a small hole.

Well, if in more detail on our own, then something like this:

We go to a household goods store or to the market and buy a patch (set) for bicycle cameras, usually there glue is given to the patch. We board (disassemble) the wheel, take out the camera, clean it with sandpaper, coat the patch with glue (degrease), let it dry a little. After that we coat it again with the patch and put the patch itself on the place of the gust. We put it under the press and wait until the glue dries, it is difficult to say how long to wait, since each glue has its own drying time, but usually an hour or two is enough.

Well, and a simple wish - No nail, no rod!)).

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Breakdowns are more common during harsh winter days. attachment of the swivel wheel of a baby carriage fails and does not lock the wheel or the body breaks at all. This is very inconvenient, because driving in the snow turns into hell, scrolls 360 degrees. Don't write off buying a new one! There is a way out!

Very often, after such a breakdown, many parents immediately search the Internet "buy swivel wheels for a stroller“And after seeing the prices, they themselves have a stupor. After all, this detail is not cheap.

In this article I will tell you what this swivel wheel mount is, the types of breakdowns and how to replace the swivel wheel stopper of a baby stroller.

Swivel wheel mount this is the thing where the fork pin is inserted and fixes the wheel (photo of the wheel with the fork and indicate where the mount is)

Swivel wheel lock or rem. a set for a baby stroller plug is that small piece, in the form of a pin, which fixes the plug. At our Prokatische store they are sold as a set (stopper or button + spring) or one stopper (button).

In order to determine the following breakdowns you need to pull out the plug from the "socket" of the swivel wheel. Now from the side of the latch, unscrew the screws. We take out the lid and look ...

If the plastic case of the mount itself is cracked, only replacing the entire part or electrical tape will save here.

Solution: buy a swivel wheel lock here

We take it out from there and change it to a new one

So the problem is in the bearing. It is located where the pin from the plug is inserted. If the bearing has scattered into "a thousand fragments" then it is time to replace it.

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Baby carriages, with a careful attitude towards them, serve for a long time and are repeatedly transferred from one family to another. A small child has to walk regularly at all seasons in any weather, overcoming bumps on the roads and obstacles. From time to time, young parents do not always get their hands on the bearings in the wheels, therefore, due to wear on the wheel bushings, they break over time.

The stroller has a tight ride and when rolling it leads to the side. And if the retaining ring that holds the wheel breaks, then it constantly falls off the axis while driving and it becomes impossible to walk the child. Wheels and lock washers, as spare parts, can be bought new, but saving the family budget, you can repair it yourself.

To fit the wheels on the axles in wheelchairs, two types of bearings are used: sliding and rolling. Plain bearings are cheap, therefore they are often used. In rolling bearings, sliding occurs due to the rolling of the balls in the cage. These are expensive bearings and therefore will only be used in high quality branded wheelchair models.

With timely lubrication, rolling bearings serve practically until the entire structure of the stroller is worn out. In the event of a breakdown of such a bearing, it is easy to replace it with a new one. It is impossible to replace a worn-out sleeve bearing, usually the whole wheel is replaced. But if you wish, you can restore the sliding bearing with your own hands, which is demonstrated in the article by the example of the restoration of the wheels of the Korean children's stroller COZY.

The wheels on the axles in the stroller are usually secured with starlock washers or the like.

The lock washer and bearing are usually covered with a decorative cover, which, in addition to its aesthetic appearance, serves to protect the bearing from dirt and water entering it.

In order to remove the cover from the wheel, you need to squeeze the latches on the inside with a screwdriver blade, as shown in the photo. There are two of them in this wheel cover.

The stop on the axle turned out to be plastic, consisting of two parts. One is fixing, and the second is for securing the retainer. As the operation of the stroller has shown, plastic clips often break, before that they had to be noticed with metal ones on three wheels.

Before repairing wheels, thoroughly wash them from dirt and grease residues with a brush and detergent. Laundry soap or laundry detergent will work.

To completely remove dirt from the hole in the wheel and give its surface roughness, it is necessary to walk around its entire circumference with a round file. If there is no such file, then you can wrap a rod of a suitable diameter made of wood or other material with sandpaper, and thus process the surface.

Further, from a tube, the inner diameter of which will be freely put on the axle of the stroller, it is necessary to cut bushings with a length equal to the length of the hole in the wheel. A brass tube works best, but if you don't have one, you can use a steel tube. I made the bushings from the knee of a broken brass telescopic radio antenna, sawing it with a jigsaw with a metal file installed in it.

The bushings made on the axle of the stroller rotated easily. The gap did not exceed one millimeter.

For good adhesion of the surface of the bushings with epoxy resin, their surface was processed with a file with a large notch. To fix the sleeves during processing, they were held with round nose pliers.

The bearing bores in the wheels had high tapered wear. Therefore, the sleeves made of a thin-walled tube were not fixed when installed in them. If it is impossible to insert the bushing into the wheel hole due to the large thickness of its walls, the hole must be bored. If there is a soldering iron of sufficient power, then the hole can not be bored, but the bushing can be pressed in by heating it up to the melting point of the wheel's plastic.

The fixation of the bushings in the wheel bores was performed using thermoplastic silicone, which also excluded the epoxy resin from flowing out when it was poured. Silicone was applied by melting with a soldering iron from the side of the hole with the minimum diameter.

The gap between the hub and the wheel bore is best filled with epoxy using a medical syringe. It is necessary to apply the resin slowly so that it has time to displace the air from the gap and penetrate its entire depth.

The photo below shows what the wheel looks like after filling the gap between the hub and the wheel bore with epoxy. If, during application, a little glue gets into the inside of the sleeve, then it can be removed after curing with a file or sandpaper.

To increase the strength of the restored bearing after pouring epoxy resin, a flat metal washer was additionally installed in each wheel. All wheels have been repaired and in a day, when the resin is completely hardened, they can be installed on a stroller.

While repairing the wheels, it was discovered that one of them had a rubber tire spinning freely around its base. Obviously, due to the tight rotation of the bearing, the rubber ring rotated and, as a result, worn out from the inside. This defect was repaired by filling the resulting gap with silicone. It should be noted that silicone hardens in depth at a rate of about 2 mm per day. Therefore, with a large gap depth, it is necessary not to operate the stroller for a couple of days after the repair.

Since three of the four plastic wheel holders broke and were lost, we had to think in advance how to fix the wheels on the axles. It was decided to fix the twin wheels with studs, and the single one with a homemade split washer.

On one axis, the groove was absent, while on the other it was barely noticeable. Therefore, holes with a diameter of about 1.5 mm were drilled in the place where the groove passed in the axes.

Before putting each wheel on the axle, its inner bore and axle surface were abundantly coated with graphite grease. Low-speed plain bearings are usually lubricated with thick lubricants. Among them are Litol-24, Filol-3, LSC-15 and the like. Motorists are well aware of these lubricants.

To reduce wear on the side surfaces of the bearings and prevent dirt from entering them, metal flat washers were installed on all sides of the wheels. If a suitable size washer is not available, then you can mount the wheels without them.

After installing the wheel on the axle, it must be fixed with a stud. A postage carnation was used as a hairpin. To be able to insert a nail into the hole in the axle of the stroller, it had to be slightly bent with an arc.

Since the length of the nail was longer than required, part of it from the side of the head was bitten off using side cutters. This operation can also be performed before installing the nail on the axle. Instead of a nail, you can use steel wire or a piece from a large paper clip.

Further, the protruding ends of the nail from the axis must be bent at right angles in different directions with the help of pliers. One of the bends can also be done in advance. It remains only to replace the decorative cover. If the cover is lost, it will be necessary to lubricate the bearings more often.

The axles of the single wheels of the stroller had deep grooves and drilling holes in them could lead to a weakening of the axles. Therefore, it was decided to make the clips from an ordinary flat metal washer.

The washer was bored from the inside so that its width was about 2 mm and the diameter was equal to the diameter of the axle. To allow the washer to fit into the axle groove, a part a couple of millimeters wide was removed in it, as shown in the photo.

After applying grease to the axle and seating the wheel, the washer was also put on to the level of the groove. Then the washer was compressed with pliers until the ends closed, as in the photo.

Do-it-yourself repair of the wheels of a stroller has been successfully completed and you can go for a walk with your child. The installation of metal bushings in the bearings has greatly increased the service life of the wheels. The fact that it is time to lubricate them will be announced by the unpleasant creak that appears when the wheelchair is rolling.

According to the young mother, after the repair of the wheels, the stroller began to roll easily, straightforwardly and even better than when it was new.

Hello dear pikabushniki! Literally an hour ago, my son's baby carriage broke down. Or rather, her left wheel. Stroller "chicco" 3in1. This piece of iron (below in the photo) served as something like a retaining ring that grips the wheel on the axle. But in two years it just faded away (deliberate weakening of the structure in action). The piece of iron should be symmetrical, but part of it came off and was lost. The metal is very hard. Soldering failed. The officials in Rostov-on-Don offered only a complete wheel for 1300, which, frankly, does not suit me very much. Can anyone come across, tell me plz. Maybe someone knows where to buy. Google did not help to help ((

I will leave comments for the minuses inside just in case.

1 - find a wire that is suitable in terms of rigidity and make the same thing out of it

2 - contact the argonian and ask him to cook a piece of matella instead of the lost one.

It is difficult to fix a wheel, but it is quite possible!

In this article, I want to briefly share an experience that I did not plan to acquire at all. In any case, when I bought a Chicco stroller for my daughter, I was not going to become an expert in repairing her undercarriage - ideally, she had to roll back the due date and then either die on the balcony or leave as a charitable gift.

But after about five months of active use, one of the rear wheels fell off, literally remaining behind on the road. The problem was resolved quickly enough, and below I will describe how it was done.

A characteristic feature of the wheels of baby carriages from Chicco (maybe from other manufacturers as well - I will not undertake to argue) is that the wheels themselves are held on the axles by means of tapered plastic bushings that are inserted into the tapered wheel channels. This design provides a fairly smooth ride, but with a large "mileage" problems begin:

As a result of the wear of the hub, the wheel simply falls off the axle.

1. Dust will inevitably get into the gap between the hub and the channel in the wheel.
2. If you do not remove it (and it is very inconvenient to do it - below I will tell you why), it plays the role of an abrasive.
3. Over time, the inner bore diameter increases and the plastic sleeve wears off.

The bushings are stitching unevenly, so the wheels fall off one by one. But if the process has begun, then I would advise at least to sort out all the moving elements.

As a result, the diameter of the hub became less than the minimum diameter of the tapered channel, and the wheel simply slid off the axle, unsupported by anything. At the very least, we drove to the house, and then we had to repair it.

The photo shows that one of the bushings has worn out more.

In such a situation, there are three obvious solutions:

1. Contact the service center - not our option, since the stroller was bought from hands, albeit in perfect (externally) condition.
2. Buy new wheels - quite expensive, while we were promised to bring them "in a week or a little later." In general, not an option either.
3. Fix it yourself.

The decision was made, and therefore I proceeded to disassemble the wheelset:

1. The wheel itself did not have to be removed - it fell out anyway. But the bushing, requiring replacement or reinforcement, was fixed on the axle not with a nut, but with a lock washer of the "starlock" type - a rather reliable but capricious device.

1. When trying to remove the washer, it instantly cracked - severe wear affected. It was not possible to find a similar one on sale, so I had to experiment (more on that below).
2. The structure was disassembled, after which both wheels were removed from it, and the cylindrical axle and both plastic bushings were removed.

After removing the washer, the structure was quickly disassembled

Since it was not possible to fix the wheel on the axle without a locking washer, it was necessary to resort to replacement.

Instead of an axle with a diameter of 6 mm, it was decided to install a long bolt of the corresponding diameter. The replacement was done like this:

1. Since there was a slightly longer bolt, I sawed off part of it using a metal saw. The replacement for the axle has been made slightly longer for ease of fixation.

1. I inserted a pair of washers into both wheels: their diameter made it possible to securely fix the entire system in the conical channel.

Wide washers will prevent the wheel from falling off

Putting the structure back

1. I put the second wheel with washers on the protruding axle and fixed it with a nut.
2. To prevent the nut from unscrewing when moving, I secured it with a grover and a lock nut.

Tighten the fasteners with a wrench while holding the head of the bolt on the other side. After that, I added a few drops of oil to the gap between the wheel channels and the washers.

Sea trials were successful!