Originally Posted by
Myosmith
If you're a geek like me, you could take an old carefully inspected chain and separate a few 3-4 link sections and toss them into jars of the solvent/cleaners in question and let the sit.
I'd be more convinced it you took some extra links from a new chain and soaked them in solvent and let sit and they came out cracked. I would bet you could let them sit for ever without cracks forming.