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From: grt@twitch.UUCP ( G.R.Tomasevich)
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Subject: What is paraffin - Bull Shot
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Date: Wed, 8-Jan-86 13:11:52 EST
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> what is ment by the word paraffin.  In the UK, the word paraffin is used for
> what we in the US call kerosene, which is a good cleaner for chains.  However,

Actually, try both.  I use paraffin (US) on most of my bikes.  For the 'tank',
which gets a lot of crud in snow and rain, I use kerosene saturated with
paraffin.  It only lasts a few days, or even only one day in the summer.
Paraffin is good on a mountain bike.  Because the chain is dry, it does not
pick up much sand, of which we have plenty in Monmouth County.

> kerosene followed by lubricating with "Bull Shot."

I won a can of Bull Shot in a bike race.  What garbage; it really gunked
up the chain.
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	George Tomasevich, ihnp4!twitch!grt
	AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ