Originally Posted by
datlas
One guy I ride with swears by paraffin and his chain and drivetrain always look clean and new.
Me? I just lube and wipe. It may look dirty but it's functional and I have more important things to do.
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.