Blackening a Chain?
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Find some of this - it will make your chain black in short order and also is supposed to be a good lube.
GRAPHENlube World's Best Wax Lubricant Period. (absoluteblack.cc)
Or just ride your bike with normal chain lube, it will get dirty and black.
If your chain were pristine clean, you could probably spray paint it and it would look good for a short time. It would have to be totally pristine though.
GRAPHENlube World's Best Wax Lubricant Period. (absoluteblack.cc)
Or just ride your bike with normal chain lube, it will get dirty and black.
If your chain were pristine clean, you could probably spray paint it and it would look good for a short time. It would have to be totally pristine though.
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If your local shop only has silver or gold chains, maybe that's a ... uh ... jewelry store?
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Snarky replies aside, stripping to clean bare metal and soaking in warm citric or phosphoric acid will probably give you a dull dark gray.
Proper black might involve calling other shops.
The fastest might be a local co-op with a used chain. Overnight shipping from an online source comes to mind as well.
Proper black might involve calling other shops.
The fastest might be a local co-op with a used chain. Overnight shipping from an online source comes to mind as well.
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Snarky replies aside ... soak in phosphoric acid.
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Sure, it’ll start hydrogen embrittlement if you leave it in too long. I suppose it is expecting too much that the OP is going to research the downsides to these options.
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There are plenty of home gun bluing concoctions on the market that may do the job, if it's really that important and urgent. I would think it's easier, not to mention smarter and cheaper, just to buy the right chain. Certainly anything would be better than allowing one's chain to get so dirty and oily that it becomes black.
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All in all the others are giving you the best solution. Just shop and buy the chain color you want to start. If you need a chain for the weekend then buy the silver one and replace it later. Or drive to the next LBS in the next town or district.
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Personally, I avoid black chains like the plague. Full silver for me, please!
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The "silver" chains I've had were clearly nickel or similarly plated. So you would need to remove the plating first before using a cold blue to blacken the links. Consider that it would also blacken the rollers too. And the ends of the pins. So it would be ALL black. Likely not what you want. And also multiple chemical baths at least one which I believe would be nitric acid to remove the plating if it is in fact nickel. Or perhaps electrically removing it with a different bath and power supply. But that is likely to be a spoty sort of deal since the chain might not be equally conductive along the whole length depending on a few things.
All in all the others are giving you the best solution. Just shop and buy the chain color you want to start. If you need a chain for the weekend then buy the silver one and replace it later. Or drive to the next LBS in the next town or district.
All in all the others are giving you the best solution. Just shop and buy the chain color you want to start. If you need a chain for the weekend then buy the silver one and replace it later. Or drive to the next LBS in the next town or district.
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https://www.bluewonderguncare.com/pr...-gun-black-kit
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I guess it’s past the date you needed it by, but next time something like this gun barrel bluing might work.
https://www.bluewonderguncare.com/pr...-gun-black-kit
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