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From: howard@garfield.UUCP (Howard . Campbell)
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Subject: Wax as a chain lubricant?
Message-ID: <1387@garfield.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Jul-84 13:32:50 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul  6 13:32:50 1984
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	The other day, I met someone who'd been touring
	about 5 weeks, he had a very nice bicycle, and
	a VERY clean chain.  He uses paraffin to lubricate it,
	and it works very well.  ( So he said, his
	chain was no worse for wear, as far as I could tell,
	as well as being quite free-rolling. )

	Has anyone used this method over a long period of time?
	( Longer than five weeks? )  Does anyone have any expert
	opinions on wax as a chain lubricant?  Does anyone
	know why it works?  It seems to me that the wax is acting 
	as graphite would.

						Howard Campbell,
						  MUN - Garfield.
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