Originally Posted by
gsa103
For many ultrasonic cleaners, you can immerse a glass beaker with the desire fluid and just use water in the ultrasonic bath. So if you wanted, you could have two beakers. One with solvent, and a second with clean chain lube, and the chain lube could easily be reused multiple times since it would always have a clean chain going into it.
Yep, that's how I can safely use mineral spirits to clean chains. Think I got the idea from FBinNY originally.
There isn't any need to submerge or "buzz" the clean chain to lube it, though --
rydabent was correct when he said that a clean, dry chain would wick up the lube everywhere it needs to go. Even with summer-weight chainsaw oil or Chain-L, you can observe the oil migrating to the contact area between the pins and inner plates (at the ends of the chain) within a few minutes.