Originally Posted by
FBinNY
There's the problem (most likely).
First of all, I'v never understood why people wash chains in two different, incompatible cleaners. Do you send your clothing to the dry cleaner, then run it through the wash?
I used two because the first solvent gets all of the grease off really quickly. Simple green would do it... eventually. Then I use simple green to get all the rest of the crud off of the chain. Solvent also doesn't like my plastic chain cleaner. It eats it. As many solvents do. (Especially the solvent in my parts cleaner.
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Thank you for the info. I DID think of this problem as I was lubing the chain, but I figured the lube would push out anything still left in the chain. I was wrong. I'm going to go home and clean the chain again, then dry it in the oven, THEN lube it. We'll see if that works better on my ride on Wednesday.