3CL DID chain. 530VX or 530ZVM-X

Once the rollers are engage din the sprocket there is no movement, just a very slight turn as the rollers engage.

So little need for lube between rollers and sprocket.

The only thing it will help with is it will lessen the noise.

Andy
 
Just make sure you boil it for long enough as you have to get the chain
which is a big ol lump to the same temp as the wax.

The chain should be hot enough so 99% should drain back into the tin.
 
andychain said:
Just make sure you boil it for long enough as you have to get the chain
which is a big ol lump to the same temp as the wax.

The chain should be hot enough so 99% should drain back into the tin.
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Be careful not to overheat too...A mate of mine had his wife walk in on the early stages of cleaning up the residue of a kitchen fire caused by doing his chain on the stove top.
By that stage in his marriage it didn't take much to provoke things....Divorce was next.
I did have some sympathy for her though.
 
Cheers for the heads-up (again!)


I was going to do it on the gas stove [/size]in the kitchen but having read the above figure it might be safer all 'round to use a camping stove in the shed... :D


AndyW
 
Be careful with gas cookers. The naked flame can ignite the hot grease fumes. I have a mate who was peering into a bubbling tin of hot Duckhams on a gas stove. It flashed over and his head was engulfed in a ball of flame. Fortunately the only casualties were his beard and eyebrows.

He couldn't have staged it better for comical effect. The smouldering facial hair and "startled rabbit" look on his face is an image that I'll never forget.
 
Still a couple of thousand km in that sprocket.  ;)

The one below was on Tim's 3C a couple of years ago. He thought the clutch was slipping but it was the chain jumping teeth. Did another 300 km to get home after the photo was taken.
 

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Mid-point on a Snowy Run with 1200ks to get home I, well Marty actually noticed 6 teeth were missing on my rear sprocket. I got home ok and replaced front rear and chain. That chain guard makes it hard to see, check your sprockets out there.
 
Dellortoman said:
Still a couple of thousand km in that sprocket.  ;)

The one below was on Tim's 3C a couple of years ago. He thought the clutch was slipping but it was the chain jumping teeth. Did another 300 km to get home after the photo was taken.
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Triple those k's left if you flip the sprocket and reverse the shark's teeth!!  :P
 
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