Originally Posted by
jadocs
Have you done it yet? Once you do the work to completely degrease the drivetrain, it's easy as pie maintaining and doing a re-wax. I just did my first re-wax two days ago. Poured boiling water over the chain, dried it, and put it in the crock pot while I was cleaning my bike, pausing to do an occasional stir - using PTFE powder (granted I didn't have much to clean because there was no grease, mainly road residue from the frame). After wiping down the bike, I pulled the chain out, wiped the sides, broke the links and mounted it.
Yup, I used hot wax in a crock pot for a couple of years. The tricky part now is finding an effective degreaser. Most local stores have switched to that weird odorless mineral spirits stuff that looks like white goo. Useless for degreasing bike chains.