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Are you and @hippy both doing boiling water from the kettle on the chain before you put it in the wax pot, or just straight into the wax pot off the bike?
I may test out much shorter intervals before changing, as I've been getting some corrosion spots over the last 9 months waxed when replacing once it squeaks.
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I’ve been putting the chain in a jar, pouring over some boiled water, let it sit a few mins, giving a couple of gentle agitations then pouring away. And doing this a couple of times before wiping dry, leaving the hot chain to air dry fully before waxing.
If you dry the chain properly you can just dunk it in and out the wax in seconds. If you don’t ….. you’ll probably see bubbles that’ll continue (sometimes for an hour or so) as wax works it’s way in.
I’m not sure the hot-water jar-clean is doing anything other than keeping the liquid wax cleaner for longer. Hippy’s method (chain goes straight in the wax, scrape off settled dirt from the cooled wax block) might be 80% as effective for 20% the effort 🤷♂️
I figure if the chain is squeaking it’s wearing (stretching and wearing cassettes). I try and avoid that on the geared bikes. Fewer fucks are given on the fixed chains.
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Straight into the pot. Sometimes I'll heat the wax in advance sometimes I just throw it on the wax and turn the pot on. Once it's to heat, just swish it around a bit, turn it off and then take the chain out once it's cooled down a bit.
miro_o
hippy
This. I’d rather keep it coated. You can get rust spots (and probably some wear) if you push it. I guess in the dry I could easily get 500km before noise but I never get through that distance dry!