Originally Posted by
Alupang
How can my drape method that can completed in under 5 mins be cumbersome? It takes me longer to shave each morning. Compared to a filthy grimy chain, cassette and pulleys that require cleaning in nasty stinky solvents--isn't a clean chain, cassette and pulleys an advantage?
It is cumbersome compared to squeezing small drops from a bottle. Your method may take only 5 minutes to immerse the chain but you have a spend a whole lot longer for set up time. Melting a large quantity of wax...your picture looks like about 4 lbs...takes a lot of time. Based on previous experience with wax, I'd put it at in the neighborhood of 30 minutes. Then you have to carry the wax to the bike, dip it and clean up.
I can lube a chain with a wax based chain lube in a solvent in less than a minute...without any of the hazards of molten wax.
Originally Posted by
Alupang
Any of the commercially available "wax" lubes attract grime like oil.
Now you are just making stuff up. I've been using a commercially available "wax" chain lube for nearly 20 years here in dusty Colorado. No grime attraction that I've ever noticed.