I used to use paraffin -- the kind used for sealing jam jars -- on my bicycle chain. One dropped the chain into the melted wax, let it soak, hung it to drip-dry -- and then had to hand-break every joint in the chain. But it didn't come off on your socks, and it kept dirt out of the bearings.
(Nowadays, I hand the bike over to the mechanic at the Trail House.) D2wms wrote:
Before you oil anything, be sure to give all the to-be-oiled surfaces, a good wipe down.
And if it's really gunky, put on a thin layer of new oil, wait for a while, and wipe *that* off before oiling. Nothing gets oil off like oil. (I generally use Eucerin or olive oil to clean my hands when I've got black grease on them, but any fat, grease, or oil will work.) -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange http://www.timeswrsw.com/craig/cam/ (local weather) west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where it's still summer, but the long sleeves are moving to the front of the closet. To stop mail temporarily mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: set nomail To restore send: set mail
