Request: Chain Wax Lubrication
Requests:
Donna: I’ve used wax for years as my lubricant. Good old plain paraffin wax. Heated in a “double boiler” No oil to attract dirt, no WD to wear. Cat 2 woman racer 74-77, 82-89, state champion TT in 89, etc etc. Wax on the chain works fine. I’m using some commercial lube now for the mtb chain, too lazy to wax it. You might want to do a demo on how to wax a chain.
Status:
I’ll get this tutorial done as soon as I can!




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Hi Alex,
While I haven’t tried it myself, the now defunct Recumbent blog has a great explanation of the waxing process here;
http://www.recumbentblog.com/2007/11/16/chain-waxing/
Including a link to the Grant Petersen article on which it is based, here;
http://www.recumbentblog.com/images/rivendell-1992-wax.pdf
Hope that helps!