![]() I don't even do that - I just dunk the chain in the melted wax and occasionally skim the residue off the top.īut earlier this year I had to clear out my apartment so the old carpet could be replaced with laminate flooring. I think the Oz Cyclist has modified his methods and just uses boiling water or something like that to clean the chain between re-waxing. And re-waxing isn't a big chore after stripping the original lube. My bikes live indoors and I have three cats, so I wanted to reduce my shin tattoos and furball cattoos. I'm a fan of wax, used it for two bikes for a couple of years. If you want the slickness of wax without the hassles of stripping the original chain lube/grease, and don't need chains so clean you can eat off them, try Rock 'n' Roll Absolute Dry or Gold. So while gasoline/petrol can be an effective solvent/degreaser, it must be handled with extreme caution and great respect for the risks. And a family friend burned himself to death using gasoline to either start a BBQ or ignite a burn pile, I forget which - witnesses said he tried to splash more gas on a lighted fire and even from a distance of several feet it followed him back and ignited the open container I've investigated similar incidents in workplace injuries and fatalities. Even if it goes out quickly there's a risk of igniting another open container, or panicking and knocking over another container.Īs a safety inspector I've seen the demonstrations of how quickly this stuff can get bad, both in classroom demos and in real life fatality investigations. One errant spark and you're surrounded by flame. That vapor can spread quickly and linger (it's affected by humidity, barometric pressure, etc.). His workbench has visible electrical outlets and it's a good bet there are other ignition sources nearby. Not a fan of the Oz Cyclist's casual handling of gasoline. What the alcohol is for I can't recall, but unless he's rinsing the chain with water and using the alcohol to drive out the remaining water, I can't imagine what he thinks it's doing after he's already soaked the chain in gasoline. Advocating using petrol while he's filming inside his garage also seems irresponsible to me, and his whole routine for this is just way overkill, and 99% of these results could be had far more safely and quickly. ![]() ![]() Eventually he says in his videos that he just put those stickers on his cheap Chinese wheels for looks. What you saw in the video was a set of carbon wheels with giant Easton stickers on them. I've watched a few of them, and I just end up thinking "meh." One of the things that annoyed me was his video on his cheap Chinese carbon wheels. Ps: I'm a little biased against the Ozzie Youtube guy in that video. ![]() That's all coming from inside your chain links and pins. You can put a magnet down in the mineral spirits to pick it all up, let it dry out, and the magnet will be covered in a thick layer of microscopic (and sometimes not so microscopic) steel debris. The steel wear particles will be attracted and stick there, and if you let the mineral spirits settle a bit so all the metal wear particles end up in that one spot, then pull the chain out. There's nothing left on or in that chain that's worth giving a second thought about.ītw, I've posted pics of this before, but if you would like to be horrified, just tape a decent rare-earth magnet to the underside of the jar containing the mineral spirits when you do this. A good shake and soak in mineral spirits, pull the chain, if I'm being anal about it I'll drop it into a second jar with cleaner mineral spirits in it for a rinse, then pull it out and hang it up to dry. It gets the job done too, is far, far less volatile, and so is much safer to use. ![]() It's way too volatile, and an accident could get really ugly, really fast. I've used gasoline before, but it's generally a bad idea. ![]()
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