Originally Posted by
cyccommute
Any idea what the drip point is? Heating up a dish of some sort of grease to a water-thin consistency with a freshly cleaned chain in it is hardly beyond the typical home mechanic's means. (Assuming, of course, it's more than a few degrees between water-thin temperature and flash point.) Even if it stinks, a used toaster oven is $10 or less at Goodwill. Even a crock pot (assuming it needs to soak more than 10-15 minutes) gets pretty hot on high, and I've picked up small ones for $4.
More importantly, the lubricant that so many think is "excellent" isn't liquid oil. It's a semisolid lubricant that is more like wax based lubricants than liquid oils.
I'm still happy with White Lightning Easy Lube, which appears to be pretty darn similar to the DuPont Teflon Dry Lube that WalMart doesn't seem to carry anymore. Both are waxes in very effective solvents, so I use them to flush small bearings too. It's impressive the amount of rusty gunk that a quarter teaspoon of the solvent carries out the far end of an old pedal shaft when you just don't feel like disassembling the bearings for a proper cleaning.