Never Buy Chain Lube Again? Comparison Test

chain

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according to renegade cyclists, this is an industry trick to make us spend money on something we don't need or more conspiratorial. I'm something that actually helps change to die sooner, eh, such betrayal, such a reason to investigate immediately after some mark. What is

chain

lubricant for? Lube Lubrication Most motorcyclists will say lubrication, but most motorcycle chains say no, let's prefix our

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with a Pictionary drilling game. Ingenuity, but simple chains paint too simple a picture. 95% of us don't use these anymore. Our stupid asses I pulled with O or X ring chains that are internally permanently lubricated when you have some outer plates here that hold tightly to the rivet pins. and then the inner plates that don't fit this is where the pivot happens so there is a factory grease bath to smooth that out here's the part I can

never

seem to get past my head no matter what you put on your chain , you can't touch this, if you could it would mean the factory seals are tripped, in which case the chain is as useless as a vented condom, now for sure, and there is also movement here where the o-ring joins two plates that move independently , but whatever nonsense makes your

lube

work. claims to find that it won't really decrease the friction between the seal and the steel which will decrease your wallet if you are poor like me, bought a Rings, these squish over a relatively large contact area, a nitrile on steel doesn't produce a ton of friction but multiplied by two seals per link 100 some strange links well suddenly the chain doesn't like being so rich with its fancy rings ex they get less surface area they get a second failsafe seal they get a little extra grease in the middle They get a chain that bends more easily if an O-ring chain steals a horsepower on its way to the ground. a fancy bushing and then rotate relative to this inner bushing and that's happening right here.

Putting lube on the outside of a roller won't help anything, in fact it just won't stay there. No matter how sticky your lubricant film is, the force is the monster force of a motorcycle, set it aside like it's a one night stand, wherever the rollers come into contact with the sprocket under pressure, the lubricant It is crushed, this is not the inside of an engine, there is no system constantly. The rollers of the oil refueling train under pressure will be in metal-to-metal contact within a few rotations and that's fine, so what is chain lube for? The main answer is that manufacturers are not afraid to admit that it is oxidation prevention, which is awkward because wd-40 will make that motor oil. will help, cooking spray should do it of course, there is also a second reason to lubricate modern chains and that is to replenish this small amount of unsealed grease between the roller and the bushing, maybe some fancy lubricants will stay there longer, maybe penetrating like wd-40. it will filter better there and maybe some of them pick up so much salty abrasive grit that they undo their own benefit these are the conspiracy questions we ask now let's try some answers Bellary super clean is the most popular conventional lubricant maybe because it dries white and that eliminates The guesswork goes into the application, but you pay for it, it's $22 a can.

Maxima chain wax costs only $12 a can and rivals Bell Ray in popularity, for that reason, to be precise, it is a wax-based, paraffin-based lubricant, so it should excel in repellency. water and rust Oxford Mint Dry Weather Lube is the complete opposite, it's not waterproof at all, but it does contain a PTFE substance like Teflon with one of the lowest coefficients of friction ever measured, nothing will stick to this stuff , should win our sand collection

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. Funny side note from Oxford. is legally required to warn that smelling their product can kill you, but they made it smell like tasty mint, mmm, the shit has an equally irresponsible feature and glows in UV light.

I don't know about you, but I have a lot of black lights in my toolbox and of course I want to keep my spray patterns hidden from everyone except Nancy Drew on the CSI cast. Regardless, this long-distance chain lube uses ceramic to be exceptionally long-lasting. The little dots in the formula spin like a million ball bearings creating simultaneously. very low friction and also an armadillo style armor Markov says you can go longer between applications critics say ceramics are abrasive at worst and trick at best we will see that modal c5 chain paste It applies like paint, so I

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worry about spraying my brake discs by mistake.

I'm also not worried about throwing it in my side suitcase only to open the lid and soak my underwear and the spray. In fact, without needing a carrier to push the active ingredients through the air, you'll probably get more good stuff in 150 mils of this and then 400 mils of the others, it's the Rafal unit's choice wd-40 is their famous preventer of rust with water displacer and we saw in the last test video that it is a decent chain cleaner, so if it survives our lube tests, that will be a very tempting gear oil and ready to use is another cheap solution.

It's also what my current chain recommends, something I would have known a long time ago if I had read the instructions that came with it. Most chains suggest something thick. Weight 75 80 90. so it doesn't fly everywhere and turn your motorcycle into a wet green nightmare and finally cooking spray because I'm curious if household lubricants do a decent job and this is the most pg -13 that I could find that are given to the contestants. 10 minutes to dig before being assaulted by salt water, completely dried and then soaked once more. The amount of rust that appears will be our measure of a lubricant's ability to maintain a barrier

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st rainy and windy rides, remove trash, and Belle Rae invites all of her most beautiful friends to her.

For the party, there are some medium options that keep it in a small gathering, then the maximum and the gear oil completely block the door from rust, however, we know that replenishing the roller lubricant is also relevant, the fluidity of This rotation is what we're trying to isolate, so I harvest a bunch of inner links, as always, from a new chain, then strip them of the existing grease with a nice, relaxing gasoline bath. The links are then re-lubricated with each of our chain lubricants and left to dig or dry as the case may be. Overnight, I placed the first link on a scale and used a constant power rubber wheel to make the rollers roll.

Pressure is applied slowly until the friction force under the rollers exceeds the force of our electric motor. This control link was removed with gasoline. but in reality the brocade never stops with only 380 grams of pressure. If our lubricants do anything to decrease that friction, they should keep spinning under loads heavier than that, so ceramic balls falling apart are no joke, nor is Maxima or gear oil, both of which slipped under our rollers similarly, it appears that the WD-40 had the least benefit over an unlubricated chain. I guess it penetrated fine but it evaporated overnight, so we've tested what we want our lube to do to stop rust and get the rollers rolling, but there are also a couple of things we don't want it to do and make our wheel dirty. back and collect abrasive sand. 8 test subjects are thoroughly cleaned, lubricated and given time to set, rotated at a constant speed and the splash pattern is observed at a constant distance, then the chains are allowed to pick up a teaspoon of sand of colors conveniently and thrown for another 10 seconds, true to its name.

Bell Ray's Super Clean Chain Lube left our spray receiver pretty clean. A visual inspection of the chain shows that it's stuck to a decent amount of dirt, although I'll spare you the tedious repetition of a light and science I've narrowly, if not completely, avoided, and move on to the results in order of mess, WD-40 Maxima cooking oil and motor oil immediately. Removing the chain and doing a murder scene with my card in the meantime, wiping off the viscous long-distance lubricant that stays true to its name, adheres durably to the links and therefore leaves almost no splashes.

Britt's Adhesion presents Revenge of the reasonably priced wd-40 and cooking oil keeps your noses clean. Oxford's Teflon-loaded dry lube also, unsurprisingly, works well. Modal gear oil and dirt are mediocre Bell Ray and Maxima lose by picking up every salty abrasive chain that kills the Colonel they come into contact with, so we have four scores out of four tests. rust prevention anti-spit and anti-sand roller lubrication, so our combined rating is ultimately established assuming that performance in each area is important to you. I'll know that Oxford and Modal gear oil are the most consistent contenders, so I'll never buy chain lube

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Gear oil is what most manufacturers recommend and almost as if they have done research and development on the subject, proving to be the best option. I was hoping wd-40 would be an acceptable lube because cleaning and greasing my chain with something cheap would make my heart sing. but alas, science doesn't care about our hopes and dreams or your hopes and dreams of selling an inferior product for 15 bucks, it can get greasy my friends, what is that?