Getting all wound up or down
Why have you got skateboard wheels? A reasonable question, I am 35 years old, in desperate need of growing up. I do continue to fight it so I can understand family concerns that I might be regressing back to teenage past times. But no, I had other ideas for these wheels. The drivers window winding handle on my Iveco Daily was missing its knob. This makes the archaic process of manually opening a window painful (I mean seriously, my 1992 VW Corrado has electric windows, this is from a different decade and still sucks!) but where there's a turd sandwich, make lemonade? I had seen skateboard wheels used as winder knobs before so decided to do the same thing here. As a (completely useless) skateboarding fan of old I had to do some justice to this however. You can do this very cheaply if you wish, wheels are a couple of quid as are bearings on eBay but I wanted to do a little better than that. Brands have changed but it's fairly easy to pic a wheel that has the look and...