Originally Posted by
freako
Simple Green has been shown to pit steel and promotes rust (actually the two are related), and premature chain failure. This article is related to cycling so some yak won't say my example is not related to cycling!
http://www.velonews.com/tech/report/...es/9216.0.html
I've read the article and I am both a Simple Green & SRAM user, a poor combination according to the article. One piece of information not included is the amount of soak time for the crack mechanism (hydrogen embrittlement, rust from water...) to occur. The article mentions soaking for "long periods" and "extended periods". I am not sure if this implies minutes, hours, days or months. The article implies soaking of one chain while the second chain is being used - I can only assume this means a duration of a few weeks. I wish that article would give more specifics. It's a bit like saying: "if a man is held under water for 10 minutes, he dies; therefore water is bad for man".