Best Lubricant for Samsonite Suitcase Casters and Wheels

[JHZR2]

I'll have to get a can of this and Triflow and add it to my collection. Will be helpful when rebuilding, if possible. I'll post pics when I take the casters apart.

I’ll be surprised if you can get them apart. Please show how if/when you do? I travel enough that my bags see some miles on their wheels and servicing them better would be useful!

 

[alarmguy]

None?

I’d go super lube. Which is worthwhile having. It is more compatible/plastic safe from what I’ve seen.

I had to lube a suitcase like that once, and I used corrosionx, which is a great product. It crept and destroyed the plastic/rubber portion of the wheels.

Silicone may work ok, but if it’s really lining metal bearings in a metal race, that isn’t a job for silicone as I recall.

Agree, good stuff, wont negatively affect anything, its also NSF food safe (or some versions of it)

 

[Owen Lucas]

I’ll be surprised if you can get them apart. Please show how if/when you do? I travel enough that my bags see some miles on their wheels and servicing them better would be useful!

I sense a YouTube video in the making.

 

[RooflessVW]

I might have to try this on my Milwaukee Packout.

What needs lubed on your Packout?

 

[dlundblad]

What needs lubed on your Packout?

The wheels/ axle. It gets pulled through mud.

 

[RooflessVW]

The wheels/ axle. It gets pulled through mud.

Doh!

I always forget the “bottom box” because I don’t have one.

For something like that I might try to flush it out and use a grease gun with a needle tip to get something stout in there.

 

[D1dad]

Replacing it with a Hartman. Tweed, not the jazzed up samsonite. I was going through cheap bags every few years as much as I travel and dumped $400 for a carry on and haven’t looked back. I’d also take a pick and some brake cleaner in between the wheels before you lube it. I’ve done that a few times and the amount of hair you can pull out is astounding. I just bought the wife a new long journey tweed Hartman and 1 trip it looks like a well used bag, from the bag toss Olympics. I travel by air around 20k miles a year and have learned that you get what you pay for.

 

[rszappa1]

Give it a shot of silicone spray... Thats what I do also on the retractable handle too...