Hot Chain Wax for Cargo Bikes: not quite a tutorial.

[Shaun Moulds]

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[CycloCrux]

One tip from prepping many chains for the first time is to use a 600mL gatorade bottle (or similar) with a wide mouth. Chain goes in with a small amount of your degreaser and subsequently isopropyl alcohol and it makes a really good "aggressive agitation vessel". I keep a dirty bottle for recycling the old degreaser and for the initial rinse, then a clean bottle with fresh degreaser, and a third bottle for isopropyl alcohol.

 

[Shaun Moulds]

One tip from prepping many chains for the first time is to use a 600mL gatorade bottle (or similar) with a wide mouth. Chain goes in with a small amount of your degreaser and subsequently isopropyl alcohol and it makes a really good "aggressive agitation vessel". I keep a dirty bottle for recycling the old degreaser and for the initial rinse, then a clean bottle with fresh degreaser, and a third bottle for isopropyl alcohol.

Ahh that's a good idea, I'll have a look through the recycling, I suppose the UK equivalent bottle would be an oasis bottle.