Re: Wet or dry weather lube?

On Fri, 31 May 2024 15:56:43 GMT, Tom Kunich <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
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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?
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Dieter Britz

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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.
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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.