Which Chain Cleaner is Best? Comparison Test

Hi, a

chain

cleaner

is a simple necessity, but whenever you need something ubiquitous but simple to achieve, this is a silly circus where everyone can afford to throw their hat in the ring and some companies will spend more to market their product and develop it, so

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them to see what is legit and what is just for guinea pigs. I harvest four sections of links from my 1970 TC 90. I suspect this disgusting

chain

might be the original meaning. It has been seen in years dirtier than Bear Grylls' manner. See a clean chain. It does not contain chlorine because it is modal. prefer not to make a ymca of our oceans, a complete soak on all four sides for the next cleaning Maxima is an emulsion type

cleaner

that suspends grease but then I can scrub or wash it to remove the dirt chain cleaner is by far the softer with carbon fibers. safe biodegradable

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ed on something other than bunnies and the mildest product feature I've ever heard smells like watermelon, bet you've never had that before thinking animal cruelty was a gimmick.

I checked the safety data sheets of other cleaners, no, the body count is definitely. The real poem chain cleaner is compensating for something, probably the higher price has our jet or more functional nozzle jet, depending on whether you want precision or power, let me use the jet because each contestant can put their strongest foot forward and the speed of the particles can make a difference motor Five previous ones are born from chemical companies but Oxford is an expert in all accessories and in the trade. I doubt they make chain cleaners as it professionally smells like mint.

Oh, it gives you real satisfaction because there is nothing artificial in it. With kerosene we are moving away from motorcycle-specific products, I mean, most of them for sure. Chains recommend cleaning with kerosene and hell, and this jet fuel is the active ingredient in many can chain cleaners, but they have pictures of motorcycles on the front, so they cost 15 dollars for 500 thousand, while a jug Simple kerosene costs one dollar fifty. simple greed is more like 250 for that amount when people rely on their classic all purpose cleaner for greasy chains. Lithuanians once used plain green to clean up an oil spill in the Baltic Sea, so there's probably something to the degreasing claims.

I felt like Michelangelo climbing. in the Sistine Chapel I just wanted to be left alone to make a difference on this issue. WD-40 is a fascinating choice and not only because it is the cheapest spray at $5C, its solvent ingredients are similar to kerosene, but WD-40 also contains lubricant and some motorcyclists treat this as a comprehensive cleaning and chain lubrication, making him the only contestant to reappear in our video testing the chain loops after a crush, a 10 minute break. I rate the cleaner's ability to expel sand on its own, without agitation. no brushing, no water, cleaners that remove more airborne dirt tend to leach less into the paper towel motor ex Oxford and iPhone are the cleanest with pure spray and solvent power, while the simple green maxima and wd- 40 alone managed to preserve the patina on my old chain was a success, aka failure, but most cleaners ask for added effort, so on a second pass, each section will receive a full spray followed by 30 seconds of brushed nylon on this old school metal on metal chain. use harder bristles, but since most of you have rubber sealed links, brushing is followed by a ten second soaking scissor, there's not much between them when you go to the trouble of brushing.

I see three different groups. Modal poem and Oxford made the crunchy. The old bastard looks young again flawless, then there are some boring and middling options and they clean up the highs and the X motor left significant sludge between the roller and the plate. Take the results of our pure spray test. Add in the ranking from our scrub test and the overall picture is starting to improve. It looks like this, but we can make it bigger, but a good cleaner should penetrate the dirt but not the rubber. See that the sealed chains are internally lubricated. Factory grease is protected from the big bad world.

A bit of rubber O-rings, X-rings or Z-rings, either way. They look like this, now responsible adults are very concerned about the integrity of their rubber. Our fear is penetrating cleaners, especially things like wd-40, this is going to eat away at the rubber seal and compromise our factory grease. Now that fear is justified. Hmm, maybe. None that I know of, high quality balloons, this is terrifying if you had global phobias, well maybe for what it's worth just mobile rubber balloons wd-40 and ex kill motor, but we can do better than a clown test. This alloy steel plate approaches the interior. surface of a chain link here is its outer link and here is an extra long rivet quill rubber seals are sandwiched to simulate the compression pressure exerted by a chain rivet our chain pin is tightened to a bottom bracket using a wrench dyno set I soaked this link with the first of our chain cleaner, then I'll let it sit for three minutes, if the chemical penetrates the o-ring we'll see it leak out the bottom.

This test is repeated for all nine cleaners using new products. The O-rings every time ultimately modal kerosene and the X engine leak immediately and catastrophicly. Maxima and Oxford penetrate to a lesser extent at 47 and 105 seconds respectively, the rest maintain their seals. I was surprised that Bennett's bike left once. Oh rings and various cleaners for over a year and I found that unless you use something weird like gasoline, nothing will degrade the rubber, but I guess some cleaners can sit under a rubber O-ring anyway. It is worth knowing when the seal penetration rating is taken into account for our results to be seen. this still for the sake of my beloved factory sealed grease who prefers to label it as a fatal flaw and simply remove the offenders from our list.

Note that all of these cleaners cost about the same with the exception of the much cheaper plain Green wd-40 and kerosene. I will clean my chain with I power, it performs great whether I'm lazy or not scrubbing and it doesn't sit under the rubber seals on the chains, and as for what makes the

best

chain lube, see you next time.