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  1. Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!torn!nott!bnrgate!bmerh85!bnr.ca!paynter
  3. From: paynter@bnr.ca (Stuart Paynter)
  4. Subject: Re: WD-40 To Clean Chains???
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan27.202345.16503@bmerh85.bnr.ca>
  6. Sender: news@bmerh85.bnr.ca (Usenet News)
  7. Reply-To: paynter@bnr.ca (Stuart Paynter)
  8. Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
  9. References: <1993Jan23.155237.1@vax.sonoma.edu> <68840001@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM> <1993Jan27.075149.6056@news.uakron.edu> <C1Inzo.C0s@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
  10. Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 20:23:45 GMT
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  13. In article <C1Inzo.C0s@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, bcs33424@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Bryan Siegfried) writes:
  14. |> markm@iris.polymer.uakron.edu (Mark Alan Matties) writes:
  15. |> 
  16. |> >what about wd40 as a cleaning agent then a "real" grease to lube the chain?
  17. |> 
  18. |>     That's what I've been told to do.  An earlier poster
  19. |> said something about WD40 being easy to use.  How is it easier
  20. |> than using a can of Tri-flo?  Granted, some people dip chains
  21. |> in parrafin or some other, long greasing strategy.  For us
  22. |> Tri-flo types, it doesn't take very long at all.  FYI, I'm
  23. |> not affiliated with Tri-Flo, or even consider it all that
  24. |> special, it's just a good aerosol lubricant.
  25. |> 
  26.  
  27. Applying Phil Woods Tenacious oil or Pedro's Synlube doesn't take much
  28. time either for that matter.
  29.  
  30.  
  31. -Stuart
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