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The ABEC rating is an industry-accepted standard for the tolerances of a ball bearing, and it was developed by the Annular Bearing Engineering Committee (ABEC).
ABEC ratings are pretty much meaningless for skateboarding and designed to measure quality in industrial bearing applications – where the RPM is often very high, vibration is very low, and in a relatively clean environment. On a skateboard, we are spinning our bearings much slower, vibrating them to oblivion, all in very dirty environments!
The ABEC scale has five points – ABEC1, ABEC2, ABEC3, ABEC5, ABEC7 and ABEC9. As far as skateboarding is concerned, the shielding of the bearing is probably the most important single feature – and the ABEC scale doesn’t cover shiedling arrangements.
Most quality skate brands don’t even have an ABEC standard. For example, Bones Bearings identify their bearings “skate rated” in a deliberate attempt to emphasize the irrelevance of the ABEC scale.
We customize for our clients from worldwide, as their client believe in abec score, so we print as our client requirement, mostly print ABEC-9.
