• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Chain Lube

I use putoline chain wax it's a boil type I take the worst crud off with a old dish brush then remove chain put it in the tin simmering until my bikes clean.
Then I hang it up above the tin to drip excess back in the wax.
Re install on the bike good as new.
Contains graphite and leaves the chain dry and water free as that's boiled off and ready to roll next time you take the bike out.

Yeah a bit of faff but works better than sprays and attracts no dirt.
 
Bel_Ray Super Clean is as good as I've used and after 10 years of use, I special order it if not available locally. My 310 chain never needs adjusting and simple brush off with wash water and a few minutes later, apply... on both Ducs as well. No wonder the Husky crew have Bel Ray as sponsors. Penetrates and covers right away, then dries to a tack free coating. I have packs and clothes with chain lube spots from the 70's as memories or PJ1, etc...
 
juicypips said:
I use putoline chain wax it's a boil type I take the worst crud off with a old dish brush then remove chain put it in the tin simmering until my bikes clean.
Then I hang it up above the tin to drip excess back in the wax.
Re install on the bike good as new.
Contains graphite and leaves the chain dry and water free as that's boiled off and ready to roll next time you take the bike out.

Yeah a bit of faff but works better than sprays and attracts no dirt.
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sounds like some work but im sure the chain lasts
 
Yeah it does, that's with a 4 year old super sprox rear on it change the front sprocket every 8-12 months. Chains irsi and year old too.
 
When I was a kid my racing bud and his dad mixed up a bucket of paraffin and some special oil for our chains. Heated up a big metal tub of water on a propane burner outside, put the bucket of wax in the tub, dropped the chains in the wax for a while, hang to dry, ride, repeat. I've been using o-ring chain off road since '90! and the only noticeable difference is maintenance. I simply spray it down with heavy duty silicone after a ride and soak and scrub it in B100 bio-diesel overnight about once a month. The oem chain from my '12 wr300 is still in good shape, so works for me :cheers:
 
U blokes r kn mine gets a wash with truckwash while doin bike then hose off then bit of wd40 so doesn't rust. Way too much effort to remove n clean/wax-that's beer drinkin time!
 
Huskynoobee said:
Yeah right Shawry. Your bikes are the cleanest I've ever seen from OZ!
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Haha yeah I have bn makin a bit more of an effort to clean em. Shits me tryin to work on em dirty plus I'm a little OCD with cleanliness in my shed! Good excuse to nail a few bevvies out the back wen I get home from a ride. Normally lookin thru one eye by the time I finish!;)
 
On my new sprockets and chain application (O Ring Chains) I lube the friction between the sprocket teeth and chain rollers were most of the wear takes place with a TS-70 moly paste or moly anti -seeze. Then the side plates get lubed with a chain lube from the side. On non o ring chains I soak them with a chain lube.

Never seen that chain wax in a can before you heat it and soak it?



View: https://vimeo.com/96001523


Funny it means absolutely nothin,,,,,,,,,
 
It's made by putoline, it works very well on non o ringed chains. Especially after you wash the bike as the water gets evaporated.. no rust.
Bit of a faff but doesn't take long really.

P.s. where did you get the video? Confused.com
 
River-Runner said:
What are folks using for chain lube? I've been using a Dupont wax based spray chain lube. I like it because after it drys, doesn't not have much junk cling to it. Seems to get ok reviews.

Anyone else have a lube they trust that doesn't attract much dirt? Anyone have something they think is better than the DuPont products?

Thanks.
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Agree with Johnrg- Bel-Ray Super Clean is great stuff. Their logo & stickers remind me of the fun I had as a kid / 1978 RM.
 
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