Originally Posted by
Vinnems
So if I only ride road and in fair weather... I could get away with just wiping down my chain and throwing it in the pot of wax, no deep clean required? That would have me more interested in waxing, for the sake of the life of the drive train components. I usually do a wipe down of the chain and just apply more wet lube (RnR Gold), but I still get gritty good on the drive train components that it sounds like wouldn't happen as much with wax, since its dry lube.
Before you do your first wax, you will have to clean all the oily gunk and residue out and off of it. Once that's done, I've never had to clean my chain short of wiping it before just throwing it in hot wax and swishing it around for a few minutes. I do dispose of the bottom layer of wax where all the gunk and grit settles over time, but that just involves warming the pot enough to pull it out and chop off about a 1/4" at the bottom, clean the pot, and throw (only the clean wax) it all back in.