Back in the day I used to use the Duckhams grease pan chain care set up where you used to boil your chain in grease on your mums cooker when she went to bingo and it was a great way of taking care of your chain. Despite all my best efforts it seems that you can no longer buy the Duckhams grease pans so as I have an old large frying pan and a small gas burner I was wondering what would be a suitable grease for this?

Thought of using lard?

Ah, Link-lyfe bubbling away on the stove while mum's out shopping - them were t'days.


I use this stuff applied with a stiff-ish brush .....



"A soft petroleum based paste with a high moly content. Can be rubbed, or burnished on to the surface.

Provides excellent load carrying

Dry film lubrication

Temperature range up to 450ºC"



by a strange quirk we use lots of this at work

Yes, how unusual! But apparently the boiling of "O" ring chains is a crime roughly on par with rodgering the pope so I will not be doing that. However some one on this and another forum that I frequent has offered me a chain oiler so I can use waste engine oil in it, so all well sorted now.

Sorted

On 'another' site I once suggested using old engine oil on chains applied via a Squeezy type bottle. Some Wally came on saying it was the worst idea he'd ever heard, didn't I know that old engine oil is acidic and will eat the 'O' rings and bugger the rollers .......

I asked him if he drained his sump every time he parked the bike up.

Yes, I have been warned about the acidic content of engine oil as well several times But like you Ff I cant see that it going to rot my chain away in a matter of days either and given the extortionate price of "chain" lube I think I`ll chance it for a while.

I don't think it's on there long enough to do any harm. I lube mine before a ride, I don't subscribe to the 'do it while it's hot and it gets in the nooks and crannies' theory. If you've got nooks and crannies the chain's shagged anyway

Read the other day that applying lube to a hot chain makes the carrier evaporate too quickly not allowing the lube to lube properly
I now subscribe to this line of thought too