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- From: wilde@cs.colorado.edu (Nick Wilde)
- Subject: Re: WD-40 To Clean Chains???
- Message-ID: <wilde-270193091135@csgator8.cs.colorado.edu>
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- References: <26JAN93.22493201.0194@UNBVM1.CSD.UNB.CA> <C1IonI.Hup@cs.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:13:28 GMT
- Lines: 25
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- In article <C1IonI.Hup@cs.uiuc.edu>, tthiel@cs.uiuc.edu (Terry Thiel)
- wrote:
- >
- > T0FG000 <T0FG@UNB.CA> writes:
- > >Basically, I apply WD-40 before every ride and anytime the chain
- > >becomes wet. Ordinary oil doesn't seem to do as good a job as the
- > >spray WD-40
- > >though it could be just the way I apply it.
- >
- > Can't be much of a lubricant if you have to apply it before every ride.
- >
- > >I am wondering what the rest of you do to lube your chain? Any
- > >other silly people applying this non-lubricant to their chain?
- > >Will.
- >
- > You tried one silicone lubricant and consider yourself informed enoug
- > to refer to people who don't use WD-40 as "silly". Get a life.
-
- Geez, Terry, get a life yourself ! Read what the guy said - he was
- calling himself "silly", for applying the so-called "non-lubricant"
- (according to other posts) WD-40 to his chain.
-
- Get a life, or at least some reading lessons.
-
- -Nick
-