Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Catrike Ryder Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: Wet or dry weather lube? Date: Fri, 31 May 2024 17:58:26 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 45 Message-ID: <9mhk5jhjmvhg2ro9cev40qj4g1eh4o204j@4ax.com> References: <%qm6O.20262$fBCb.4498@fx11.iad> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 31 May 2024 23:58:28 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a9d50b97564fa082e495b7d33eb6dfe1"; logging-data="2538332"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18ft4MizPq+mUM1x3TdHrNqiKUtV1Htqec=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:2XtR5Rlv9bnU9muw4z3Iirvreog= Bytes: 2863 On Fri, 31 May 2024 17:55:04 GMT, Roger Merriman wrote: >Catrike Ryder wrote: >> On Fri, 31 May 2024 15:56:43 GMT, Tom Kunich >> wrote: >> >>> On Sun Feb 4 16:01:45 2024 db wrote: >>>> I see that there are two sorts of a certain chain lubricant, >>>> for wet or dry conditions. I bought the wet one because it >>>> rained a lot here in Denmark at the time. But I expect a dry >>>> spell in summer, so should I then switch to the other, or is >>>> the wet version good in all cases? >>>> -- >>>> Dieter Britz >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Deiter, I have found that hot waxing a chain is the ideal lubricant >>> under any condition. I happen to have all of the necessary ingredients >>> and mechanisms to do it myswelf but lacking those I would buy the >>> "special blend" hot wax and the hot pot toi apply it from Silca. They >>> also sell a wax treatment that you can use between full treatments as a >>> semi-liquid wax treatment that you could apply and allow to dry overnight. >>> >>> This has two effects - everything remains remarkably clean and the chain >>> and sprockets make very little if any noise. >> >> I'm done with wax based lubes. I'm going back to Finish Line dry >> teflon lube when I put the new chain on. >> > >I do like how clean the drip on ones are, such as Squirt don’t last long >with wet weather, such as this spring! > >Some of the all weather ones seem to stay fairly, clean and resist being >washed out! > >Roger Merriman I've used Finish Line Dry for years until I switched to White Lightning for this chain. It looks like I'll get the same mileage out of this chain, but I hate how the wax builds up on everything and won't come off with regular cleaning solvent.