What can I use to clean my chain rings and cassette?
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Many of these suggestions appear to be more difficult and less effective than removing the cassette which is very easy to do. I remove the cassette from the rear wheel and immediately put a tie wrap through it to keep it in order. With the cassette off of the wheel your cleaning options are wide open. I realize that the OP stated "without taking them all apart."
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You're single.
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Call me old-school but I can't picture using Simple Green for cleaning moving parts. It's not simple, due to the need to avoid contamination, and it's not green, because the rinse water is contaminated by petrochemicals anyway, and fresh water is no longer an infinitely renewable resource in all parts of the country. For leaning a cassette on the bike I think WD-40 is fine - enough kerosene in it to loosen things up, but mineral spirits will work a bit better. I would spray it, let it sit for a while, brush with a bit more solvent and then clean off with a shop rag or similar (the mop suggestion looks good).
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I like to lick it clean. Honestly, if there's one subject that everyone can be correct about, it is cleaning your chain.
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There were parts that you couldn't disassemble. I doubt that they were completely dry when stored, kind of like the pins and rollers in a chain that's been "de-greased" with a water-soluble cleaner.
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Congratulations!!!!! Ya done good.
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Didja know .... you can fill one of those cheap ultrasonic cleaners from harbor freight with mineral spirits and it won't (IME, don't try this at home, I'm a professional abuser of equipment, etc.) blow up. And it will clean the heck out of greasy, grimy metal parts.
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Small pieces of corrugated cardboard also work well as cassette floss. Cheap too.
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