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Old 12-05-17 | 08:51 PM
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From: Nor Cal
Originally Posted by redlude97
Are you planning on making a homebrew with dilution in mineral spirits? I've used synthetic motor oil(0w-30) in my case because its what I had laying around on the cross bike which gets power washing weekly during the race season since I'm constantly having to lube and diluted 1:4 works guite well at flushing out the chain and dries leaving sufficient oil inside, very similar to the prolink

I used full strength on pretty new chain- still w/ factory lube. Chain was already gritty from wet conditions

& the added oil didn't flush things out like I'm used to w/ Prolink but good in terms of perceived noise, shifting,

grunge, etc.. About 200 miles.
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