fredly wrote:
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Don't be a caker! Proper waxed chain has no gunk on it to fall off. I have never noticed any wax underneath my Zwift setup.
It depends what you're going for. When I have tested this, chains that are allowed to stay in the pot until the wax has partially solidified have a small but significant increase in the lifespan of the lubrication. When done this way, though, they're definitely going to shed a fair bit of wax during the run in process. It *is* fairly easy to simply remove the chains earlier for use indoors, but I can't agree with the "proper" part.
YMMV, but I do know that others who have tested this have had similar results.
I didn't know that. But I would easily trade a small loss in lifespan for not having to floss wax cake off the jockey wheels. There was a time when for absolute A-race I'd have a bit of cake to get the external PTFE dusting that was the fashion at the time. Though I didn't test that myself (don't have good enough test equipment for sub-Watt stuff), and have stopped doing it. Now I just use the mixed-in PTFE. My tub of it is apparently going to last forever - the only reason I still homebrew the stuff.