Originally Posted by
TMonk
just gonna chime in here and comment again that there is a "middle way" when it comes to waxing - but one has to be OK with a little bit of grit on their bike and in the crock pot. doesn't bother me and I still don't hesitate to handle my drivetrain with bare hands. my methods involve zero inter-wax treatment, just the initial de-greasing of the factory wax. skimming through the thread, it seems like that's not even necessary either, which has me intrigued.
I used the Silca pre wax degreaser on the last two chains I bought, soaked for 10 minutes then into the wax. It seems to have worked well.
I don’t do any treating between waxes, just throw them back into the crock pot and away I go.
I have only had one instance of wax not holding up well on a ride and that was 4 hours in the rain during a gravel race. At the finish, the chain was completely stripped.