John,

 

 Al is on e-bay all the time selling wheels, or try

JJ....  I've used Aristo-Craft, San Val and LGB ballbearing wheelsets and have found that the Aristo Craft sets are by far the best for wear and longevity.  They will handle the weight of a 10 pound battery car for long periods of time with little on no wear. 

 

 

 

I left a car outdoors with LGB ball bearing wheels, a few years ago, and the bearings did partially sieze. However with alittle help from my thumb, they became unsiezed in short order. They do roll far superior to the Sanval wheels. Although Sanval's are not supposed to rust. I'm not sure what type of steel LGB uses, or used, but if they are plain steel and Sanvals are possibly stainless, it could be the reason for the rust/no rust theory. When razor blades used to be plain carbon steel, the edge that was on them when they were new, was sharper than the edge on a new stainless steel blade. Don't you see the correlation here?

 

 

 

Thanks  Mike.

even though they are not ball bearing I like jay-bee independent wheels ........
 

and insome whays I like the larger contact area on his then the pinpoint contact of a ball bearing when running more then just miliamps thru them .........

 

I am always afraid I am going to fry one of those little tiny balls or weld it to the cage ....

 

but I will also let you know he is getting older and it takes us months to get and order from him for the store ..... once was close to a year ...

 

so I would plain ahead ....