Model Forum / General / Models / February 2009

Not a nonsense. You'll understand why and when (you are right):
The spray-on grease has a solvent in it that evaporates. So it *is* thick
and it *is* sticky. It is even sticky like hell but not as sticky as air
filter oil. :-)
The reason why you are -to some degree- right is, that you are an old
man. :-) The grease to boil the chains out in works perfect on
non-O-ring-chains and that's what it was designed for and that's why you
have to look for it in a verrrrry dark corner. But that is past.

Nick

Jeez I've just remembered that on the second trip I actually took my huge
tub of chain wax with me despite all the other crap we had to carry and half
way round Europe I took the chain off and gave it another soaking with the
wax melted on our little camping gaz stove. I'm so anally retentive I used
to keep a log of how many notches on the rear swing arm the chain would wear
per thousand miles and I realised before we set off that it was touch and go
if it would last the several thousand miles we had planned to travel without
another greasing and I was too tight to buy a new chain before we left when
the old one still had some life left in it. I also used to log tyre wear and
fuel consumption too with careful records of how the mpg and driveability
changed if I moved the carb needles up or down a notch on the adjustment
notches they had built in to them. I'm a sad bastard. They were bloody good
days though. Fun and carefree unlike what we now live in courtesy of our
deranged government and its constant attack on our civil liberties.

I remember pulling up to the border checkpoint between somewhere (France or
Switzerland?) and Italy with the other two guys and this little hitler
(mussolini?) walked out of his hut and started asking for all our paperwork
which was deeply buried inside the strapped on luggage and a pain to get to.
"Oi mate" I said pointing to the union jack sticker on the back of the
suitcase strapped to my bike. "English blokes here".

"Ah Inglese" he smiled and waved us straight through.

Then there was the old woman in a print dress scrubbing the front steps of
her apartment in Paris when myself and Martin walked past in our Belstaffs
and motorbike boots. She spat on the ground and said "Bosch" in a voice
filled with venom. I suppose in 1978 it wasn't that long since the war had
ended and memories of the Nazi occupation were still fresh amongst the older
people there.

IIRC the gearbox on the Dore Westbury uses an oil bath,mine does anyway
and I think I followed all the instructions when I built it.Also IIRC
the gearbox only comes into play when you use back gear.

A call or email to Ivan Law at MES would give you the correct answer.

Allan

The spray on chain greases have quite a lot of solvent in them. They go on
thin and runny, then seriously thicken up. They also have tackifiers in them.

Used both over the years and they both work well on bike chains.

Mark Rand
RTFM