Originally Posted by
Duragrouch
I looked online at the stuff, read this:
Hmm, polymer chemistry is not my forte. Maybe. There's no heat involved, but perhaps via friction and oxidation? Often, polymerization of an oil at room temp results in stickiness. But my guess would be, it consists of a light carrier liquid which has affinity for metal for anti-rust, but the lube part is microparticles of plastic like PTFE ("Teflon"), that builds up in the joints with subsequent applications.
not sure I’d call ptfe a plastic. Those are mostly carbon and hydrogen based polymers and ptfe is carbon and flourine. Whether that makes it more or less of an environmental hazard I wouldn’t like to bet, but I’m reluctant to put it or the earlier mentioned MoS2 on my chain. Don’t really want to put graphite or graphene on there (partly as the latter is damn expensive) but might have to as phase 2 of this wax experiment.