Originally Posted by
cyccommute
You are missing my whole point. Heating the chain at all is unnecessary and could have undesirable side effects like setting something on fire.
Gotcha. No one should ever use a camping stove since open flames are involved and something might catch fire. A sad day for anyone owning a fireplace as well...
The risk of taking the chain off, hanging it by the ends and running it quickly through a camping stove flame is about the same as with boiling water with the same stove. Or hot waxing in general. Or burning a candle. If you don't purposefully try to set the chain on fire, it won't catch fire. But I will have to emphasize that I have not yet managed to ignite the chain. Even with the solvent wax test the solvent burned off but the wax remained.
Don’t be in such a damned hurry or use a product that has a shorter dry time or simply put on the lubricant and go ride. It will dry eventually and no harm will be done while it is drying.
It's not about hurry. It's about humidity. If you start riding in rain with a water waxed chain that hasn't dried, following your earlier statements, that wax is going to run off in short order. Or do you disagree? How do things dry in rain?
Now considering that there is exactly one brand of solvent wax available, that's exceedingly difficult to find in the EU, and even more difficult to ship (no volatile solvents allowed in planes), the realistic choice is either to use oil (nope), use no lube at all (also nope) or make the water emulsion wax work in all conditions. Letting some of the water evaporate overnight and heating the chain in the morning to A) melt the wax and B) get rid of any remaining water does in fact solve all of water based emulsion wax's problems.
Or have you never done a rainy autumn or spring tour? Do you not know what one might entail?