Degreaser

[Plax]

Any recommendations?
My bottle of Finish Line Citrus degreaser is coming to an end. Dunno whether to get it again or try something else.

Is there anything better out there? Fitted all my chains with power links and have started using the Sheldon shake method rather than one of those chain cleaners.

 

[Tharg2007]

there is also the mickle method

 

[l4dva]

I got a can of muc off degreaser that I only ever used once! after that its been the mickle method all the way!

 

[Renard]

Can someone post a link?

BTW you can get wholesale containers from the likes of industrial distributors for about the same money as finish line.

 

[very-near]

A can of paraffin and a fine brush works well.

 

[zacklaws]

A can of paraffin and a fine brush works well.

Quite agree with that, I also use petrol and white spirit, whichever I have at hand also in my chain cleaner.

 

[Llama]

read up on the mickle method - theres no need for anything else!!!

 

[ColinJ]

To save us searching, doesn't anybody have a link to The Mickle Method™?

I found a 'pound shop' selling 500 mL spray bottles of degreaser for, er, a pound!

 

[scook94]

[url=http://www.cyclechat.co.uk/forums/showpost.php?p=613258&postcount=9]link to The Mickle Method™[/URL]

 

[ColinJ]

[url=http://www.cyclechat.co.uk/forums/showpost.php?p=613258&postcount=9]link to The Mickle Method™[/URL]

Thanks for that. It's pretty much a more formalised version of what I do at the moment.

And now I'm trying to work out how you linked to just the one post!

PS I've worked it out - click on the number in the top right hand corner of the post. I've never noticed that one before!

 

[Harbornite]

chains and the Sheldon Shake for me.

Think a women I met in the Tower Ballroom did that to me once

*shudders*

 

[Cubist]

Gunk do a green version. Environmentally friendly, and doesn't make your garage smell quite so bad. It dilutes well too, so you can put it in a spray container. Far, far cheaper than Muc-Off or fagotty citrus bollocks. I use it a lot in the winter to get rid of the Wet-Lube-and-granite grinding paste, but Mickle method and dry lube for this time of year.

 

[mickle]

Sheldon was wrong. There, I've said it.

 

[Plax]

LOL. Thanks for the laugh Cubist, "fagotty citrus bollocks" is quote of the day.

Still haven't decided what to get. I do tend towards the Mickle Method after rides, but when I've been down the cycle track in the rain and my bike is caked with mud and sandy grit, I do like a bit of a Sheldon Shake.

 

[mikeitup]

Any recommendations?
My bottle of Finish Line Citrus degreaser is coming to an end. Dunno whether to get it again or try something else.

Is there anything better out there? Fitted all my chains with power links and have started using the Sheldon shake method rather than one of those chain cleaners.

I used to use FL citrus dg in my chain cleaner and in spray can.
Expensive for how much you get.

I now use this :

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Viro-sol-10-l...trkparms=65:12|66:2|39:1|72:1686|293:1|294:50

very cheap and it's excellent stuff. My chain etc looked new (almost)