On Monday, June 19, 2017 at 10:12:29 AM UTC-4, wrote:
On Monday, June 19, 2017 at 6:29:47 AM UTC-7, Joerg wrote:
On 2017-06-18 18:05, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 6/18/2017 12:54 PM, Joerg wrote:
On 2017-06-18 09:45, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 6/18/2017 12:24 PM, Joerg wrote:

I am probably more like your friend, babying chains a lot. I apply
lube to each link using a Q-Tip. White Lightning Epic Ride gets shaken
for a good mix, then I squirt the roughly needed quantity into an old
shotglass and dab it on. After a thorough cleaning, of course.

How long does that take you?


The cleaning? Depends on where I was riding. A few minutes for the
road bike yesterday. My road bike has a good dose of dirt trail
exposure. On the MTB this can easily consume 15mins or more because
there often is "weed parfait" and other nasty stuff caked into
everything. Where you need scraping and poking tools. Sometimes
solvent if vegetation with lots of sap got sucked in.

The actual lube job took less than a minute.

Wow. If your Q-tip procedure takes less than a minute, you're dabbing
with that Q-tip about twice every second, including time to re-dip that
Q-tip in the chain lube.


Has it not occurred to you that the cotton ball at the end of a Q-Tip
can hold enough lube for several joints? Over-lubing a chain is not a
good thing but a mess.


You're fast, all right!


Look at a Q-Tip and then try to lube something with it. Maybe it'll sink
in. Maybe not.

I'll have to try that method since I have a lot of waste with one drop per link.

I have small plastic bottles with a very fine tip on them. They used to hold drops for my dog's ears but I use them now for oil. The very fine tip puts a drop of oil precisely on the roller of the chain link and the oild flows under the roller and onto the pin. It takes less than a minute to oil the entire 9-speed chain and there's no dripping of oild onto the floor or elsewhere. There's also usually no oil on the outside of the links where it's not needed and would only act as a dirt magnet.

Cheers