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Betsy
Old School Grand Master
Can i hijack.. my question isn't worthy of it's own thread..
Last summer i bought a new chain.. removed the factory grease.. cut it to length and put it on my bike.. had to do a bit of fine tuning on the rear mech but every change was perfect.. i thought 'new chain, new lube' rather than switching lube part way through the life of the chain and bought this stuff.. the reviews are fantastic .. 10,000+ peeps can't be wrong.. right?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00ANNR15G/ref=pe_27063361_485629781_TE_item?th=1
I followed the instructions to the T.. applying liberally and waiting to dry.. "don't worry if you put too much on and it drips from the chain" i didn't put that much on?! ... anywho, i rode around the block with the limit screwdriver in my pocket for fine adjustment but non of the gears were seating properly.. crunching sounds, chain bouncing up and down the cassette.. i didn't have my reading glasses on so just started adjusting the limit screws willy-nilly.. noth9ing worked so i rode back to work and put the bike back on the bike stand and the cassette was thick in globs of waxy chain lube which had deposited themselves between the cogs.. so i removed the chain and the cassette and degreased this waxy substance from everything.. picking globs of wax out of the jockeywheels with a toothpick.. once cleaned, i sprayed everything with GT-85 and used a bit of good old 3 in 1 readjusted the mech.. and all was gravy.
What has gone wrong here?.. 10 thousand ppl think this is a fabulous product.. it cost me £15 so i'd like to use it.. it's foolproof apparently?
Last summer i bought a new chain.. removed the factory grease.. cut it to length and put it on my bike.. had to do a bit of fine tuning on the rear mech but every change was perfect.. i thought 'new chain, new lube' rather than switching lube part way through the life of the chain and bought this stuff.. the reviews are fantastic .. 10,000+ peeps can't be wrong.. right?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00ANNR15G/ref=pe_27063361_485629781_TE_item?th=1
I followed the instructions to the T.. applying liberally and waiting to dry.. "don't worry if you put too much on and it drips from the chain" i didn't put that much on?! ... anywho, i rode around the block with the limit screwdriver in my pocket for fine adjustment but non of the gears were seating properly.. crunching sounds, chain bouncing up and down the cassette.. i didn't have my reading glasses on so just started adjusting the limit screws willy-nilly.. noth9ing worked so i rode back to work and put the bike back on the bike stand and the cassette was thick in globs of waxy chain lube which had deposited themselves between the cogs.. so i removed the chain and the cassette and degreased this waxy substance from everything.. picking globs of wax out of the jockeywheels with a toothpick.. once cleaned, i sprayed everything with GT-85 and used a bit of good old 3 in 1 readjusted the mech.. and all was gravy.
What has gone wrong here?.. 10 thousand ppl think this is a fabulous product.. it cost me £15 so i'd like to use it.. it's foolproof apparently?
novocaine
Retro Wizard
we call always make a better fool.Can i hijack.. my question isn't worthy of it's own thread..
Last summer i bought a new chain.. removed the factory grease.. cut it to length and put it on my bike.. had to do a bit of fine tuning on the rear mech but every change was perfect.. i thought 'new chain, new lube' rather than switching lube part way through the life of the chain and bought this stuff.. the reviews are fantastic .. 10,000+ peeps can't be wrong.. right?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00ANNR15G/ref=pe_27063361_485629781_TE_item?th=1
I followed the instructions to the T.. applying liberally and waiting to dry.. "don't worry if you put too much on and it drips from the chain" i didn't put that much on?! ... anywho, i rode around the block with the limit screwdriver in my pocket for fine adjustment but non of the gears were seating properly.. crunching sounds, chain bouncing up and down the cassette.. i didn't have my reading glasses on so just started adjusting the limit screws willy-nilly.. noth9ing worked so i rode back to work and put the bike back on the bike stand and the cassette was thick in globs of waxy chain lube which had deposited themselves between the cogs.. so i removed the chain and the cassette and degreased this waxy substance from everything.. picking globs of wax out of the jockeywheels with a toothpick.. once cleaned, i sprayed everything with GT-85 and used a bit of good old 3 in 1 readjusted the mech.. and all was gravy.
What has gone wrong here?.. 10 thousand ppl think this is a fabulous product.. it cost me £15 so i'd like to use it.. it's foolproof apparently?
when you make a product there is always an end of batch. Maybe you got a bad bottle, it's got to happen every now and then surely.
I do use a wax lube and have done for years, never tried a "long lasting" sort that you apply like this (I've boiled a few chains) though, always thought is was a bit snake oil for me. Finish line was my preferred, these days it's moved to muc off because I can't get the good stuff.
PhillB
GT Fan
That's strange! Maybe it reacted with something else on the chain, did you use a cleaner to remove the factory grease?Can i hijack.. my question isn't worthy of it's own thread..
Last summer i bought a new chain.. removed the factory grease.. cut it to length and put it on my bike.. had to do a bit of fine tuning on the rear mech but every change was perfect.. i thought 'new chain, new lube' rather than switching lube part way through the life of the chain and bought this stuff.. the reviews are fantastic .. 10,000+ peeps can't be wrong.. right?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00ANNR15G/ref=pe_27063361_485629781_TE_item?th=1
I followed the instructions to the T.. applying liberally and waiting to dry.. "don't worry if you put too much on and it drips from the chain" i didn't put that much on?! ... anywho, i rode around the block with the limit screwdriver in my pocket for fine adjustment but non of the gears were seating properly.. crunching sounds, chain bouncing up and down the cassette.. i didn't have my reading glasses on so just started adjusting the limit screws willy-nilly.. noth9ing worked so i rode back to work and put the bike back on the bike stand and the cassette was thick in globs of waxy chain lube which had deposited themselves between the cogs.. so i removed the chain and the cassette and degreased this waxy substance from everything.. picking globs of wax out of the jockeywheels with a toothpick.. once cleaned, i sprayed everything with GT-85 and used a bit of good old 3 in 1 readjusted the mech.. and all was gravy.
What has gone wrong here?.. 10 thousand ppl think this is a fabulous product.. it cost me £15 so i'd like to use it.. it's foolproof apparently?
I have been using the same stuff for the last couple of years with no problem and I think it is pretty good.
jim haseltine
Senior Retro Guru
You can always trust website customer reviews.
Can't you?
What? Some might be false you say? No, surely everything on the Internet is true.....
All joking aside, a few years back I tried Revolubes and grudgingly agree that it's good stuff. A chain coating lasts 500+ miles and doesn't wash off during the first rainstorm but it's not as clean as the advertising tries to suggest.
Can't you?
What? Some might be false you say? No, surely everything on the Internet is true.....
All joking aside, a few years back I tried Revolubes and grudgingly agree that it's good stuff. A chain coating lasts 500+ miles and doesn't wash off during the first rainstorm but it's not as clean as the advertising tries to suggest.
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