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Bergman's Formula for Chains:

I first tried this a number of years ago. It's advisable to do this in your garage or a shed:

1. 1 quart of Naptha or Coleman Fuel
2. 3/4 bar of Gulf Wax (not 3 or 4 bars but 3/4 of one bar)
3. Shave Gulf Wax into the Naptha (helps it dissolve faster)
4. Let dissolve
5. Pour off into a 1 quart Mason jar
6. Pour the remainder off into an empty squirt bottle
7. Clean a new chain thoroughly of the factory oil with solvent.
8. Go out to the garage or a shed
9. Pour mixture into a metal pie pan (or other suitable solvent-proof container - those small paint buckets at Home Depot are ideal) and let chain sit in it for 24 hours (or more) with aluminum foil over the pan - agitate slightly every 6 hours or so
10. Pull the chain out and hang dry and install on bike

If it's cool in the garage or shed the mixture may congeal. If it does, add more naptha.
This stuff soaks into the rollers and links better than melted wax in my opinion, and you don't have a chain that stands straight out and needs to be worked so hard before it's put on the bike.

I've been doing this on one bike for about a year now with good results, have a clean-running chain, no chain tattoos and for lubing I just drizzle the stuff in the squirt bottle over the rollers every 500 miles or so.


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