OP here. Let me try to summarize what I am learning. My current practice is to remove the chain when dirty, soak it in mineral spirits in a used 1 qt yogurt container. After a few minutes I swish it around, take it out, and then, depending on how energetic I feel, either take a brush to it or wipe it down, then put it in a second yogurt container and repeat the process. Take it out, wipe it down, reinstall it, lube it, wipe it down lots more.
What I'm reading I should do is buy an ultrasound machine & two pots, then clean it much the same as I have been, except adding a third cycle with mineral oil. (How to clean the ultrasound pots is yet to be learned). Buy an inexpensive crock pot and waxing supplies. Boil them up, wax the chain, let it cool, install and ride away. Presumably this process wont have to be done nearly as often and I wont have chain tattoos on my leg. I would like that but I would groan whenever it needed redoing. If I were young enough to justify buying a new bike, it would be titanium with a Rohloff hub and a Gates drive belt! Michael On Monday, June 4, 2018 at 1:03:49 PM UTC-4, Clayton wrote: > > White lightening clean lube after every two or three rides with a good > chain wipe down, keeps my chain very clean. I have a very 'spensive cog set > that I can't afford to replace at three hundred plus dollars. (It was a > gift from my son). One thing I have learned after thirty years, is don't > degrease your new chain. Chains last much longer with the factory grease > inside the rollers. True story. > > Clayton > #DirtDance > > On Saturday, June 2, 2018 at 4:54:19 AM UTC-7, Michael Hechmer wrote: >> >> I did a search on this and was surprised not to find anything. (Except >> waxing cloth!) >> >> After 40+ years of cleaning and lubing chains I may be ready to try wax. >> I recently got a recipe & process on the tandem list but wondered about >> the experience of people on this list. How much extra work is it? How >> much longer does it last than "dry lubes?" Does it make a difference what >> kind of environment you ride in, eg, Santa Fe vs Seattle? >> >> Michael >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
