Originally Posted by
Athens80
What's more important than a clean machine? I've started using a 50/50 mix of paraffin and paraffin oil, applied via dunking the cleaned chain in the paraffin mix warmed in a small crock pot. Long ago I used straight paraffin (canning wax). In between I used conventional bike chain lubes.
I feel it's a tool not a jewel. I don't care if it's not so clean.