Originally Posted by
cyccommute
On-bike chain cleaning tools are one of those things that sound good in theory but aren’t so great in practice. I would bet that nearly everyone who worked on bikes has one of them…in the bottom of a drawer…on the top shelf…behind the kids toys that they can’t throw out even though the “kids” are now 40 years old. They probably used it once and spent the next 30 minutes mopping up the mess.
I've been using them regularly for well over two decades, and they work just fine. And I have no idea how anyone would need to spend "30 minutes mopping up the mess," which leads me to think that you've not used them correctly.