Originally Posted by Hirohsima

I wanted to thank Landgolier for this bit of advice. It ROCKS! I have always cleaned my chain w/ simple green, or park chain clearner, or even just soaking it with lube and wiping. All always resulted in a semi-clean chain which still sounds gritty when I twist it. Used the Mineral Spirits method, Shook in a jar for 3 minutes and removed. Clean as a whistle, no grit, no film, no nada.... just a clean chain. I then cleaned a second chain in the same dirty pitch-black spirits. Same results on the second chain. As a test to see how much was left over, I emptied the jar, wiped it clean and refilled with fresh mineral spirits. Put in both chains and almost no extra grease/dirt came out of the chain. I have never had a clean chain like this except when it was new. Thanks Landgolier!!!

Originally Posted by caloso

Liberal application of Pro-Link. Wipe, wipe, wipe. Ride. Repeat.