Hot waxed my chain today and I am nor sure if there is to much wax on it. Is there something like "to much wax" on a chain? Will it come of at some point? Some links are clothed and I had troubles getting it onto the bike
by Quond
Hot waxed my chain today and I am nor sure if there is to much wax on it. Is there something like "to much wax" on a chain? Will it come of at some point? Some links are clothed and I had troubles getting it onto the bike
by Quond
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What wax are you using and what temperature when removing the chain? There is a lot of wax on the outside plates. Some will flake off but wondering if it will affect shifting more than anything.
Did you ‘break it off’ around something cylindrical when it was dried? Most videos I’ve seen do that after and then it’s good to go.
Does seem like quite a bit left but I’ve never hot waxed
Excess will flake off and the chain will loosen up with use. Just rotate the cranks until the chain moves smoothly over the gears.
This looks like more wax than what I experience with Silca’s hot melt wax. But as someone else said, it will flake off, so it probably doesn’t really matter.
No, the extra wax naturally come off in the first 20 miles or so after waxing/re-waxing
I think you basically created a candle. there is a video showing exactly this on the silca velo youtube channel.
you put the chain up before it got to the correct temperature.
you have to dip and leave the chain on at least 10 minutes until the chain get the the same temperature.
most of the wax will flake off with usage, the thing is if you didn’t leave enough time so that it penetrate between the roles. it will be noisy very soon.
start over, if you use hot wax.. use a termometer
You probably waiting a tad too long to pull it but no worries. It will just break off after one ride. The only negative is that you wasted a bit of wax. Next time just pull it sooner and you’ll be fine.
No worries, the access will fall off in the first mile or so.
Go ride.
I let my chain soak in the pot for almost an hour to ensure that the metal comes up to temperature and the wax penetrates every pore and surface. And then I pull it out of the pot, set it on cardboard for less than a minute and install while it is still hot. Then, I run the drive train through the gears on the stand to smear some of the wax on the sprockets. I don’t have problems with excess wax. I think that comes from letting the pot cool down too much before removing the chain.