Originally Posted by
bbbean
It's $32 worth of r&d to develop the best possible wax for the application. FWIW, it isn't simply wax, it is lubricant suspended in wax. If just any old wax would do, we'd all be rubbing old candles on our chains instead.
Wow, I had no idea. When I used decades ago to use wax we all just used blocks of paraffin wax, the stuff they sell for sealing canning jars. I think it is maybe $4-6 a pound at the local grocery or craft store.