Chain Waxing

Based on what I've read from a variety of sources, this is how I treat my chains to wax them from new:

1. Run in the chain on a turbo trainer - a few hours' use is enough.
   
2. Remove chain, put in jar of white spirit, jiggle about, leave to soak.
   
3. Clean chain with kitchen towel, running the chain through some folded up towel looking for dark stains where the packing grease is coming off.
   
4. Repeat rinse in white spririt until no more grease comes off and the kitchen towel is clean.
   
5. Rinse chain in a jar of meths, leave to dry.
   
6. Stick chain in ultrasonic cleaner with warm degreaser for the final clean.
   
7. Rinse with boiling water and leave to dry.
   
8. Put chain in slow cooker full of molten paraffin wax with some molybdenum disulphide and PTFE powder - the proportions don't need to be exact but I think I used the SpeedWax formula.
   
9. Hoik out chain, leave wax to dry, loosen all the links one at a time.
   
   

It's a right old faff, but not too bad if you do it in batches. I only use it for the chains on my TT bikes though. For everything else I just use whatever is to hand, except winter bikes and MTBs which get Chain-L.

In terms of kit I've got a generic 3 litre ultrasonic cleaner off eBay - very useful for cleaning stuff generally - and a 6 litre slow cooker my father gave me for Christmas - they're basically all the same and you don't need anything too fancy.