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  • Ah, I'm going straight to carb cleaner or 'the most volatile shit known to mankind' in mine and probably leave it running unattended overnight because

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFEoMO0pc7k&t=1s

    Seriously though, any decent degreasers that aren't petroleum based? Read a lot about people using some USA green stuff.. Simple Green? Not sure that's good enough for a new chain strip though. Diluted carb cleaner seemed to work well on the two test chains.

  • Carb cleaner (usually ethyl or acetone based) is too volatile, it won't do any good, according to @Cycliste, who's a chemical engineer and so knows about these things. You want something like Xylene or Toluene instead.

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