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Shoutout to the old timer who showed me his chain cleaning trick
I was working on a really gritty 10 speed chain last week, the kind that sounds like sandpaper. An older mechanic in the shop saw me scrubbing it with a brush and told me to try using a piece of old inner tube instead. I wrapped it around the chain and ran it through, and it pulled out way more gunk than the brush did in half the time. It was one of those simple, cheap fixes that just works. What other old school tricks do you guys use for cleaning parts?
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piper_kim7d ago
Remember the old school trick of using a pencil eraser to clean cassette cogs. It gets into those tiny spaces a brush misses and the rubber grabs the grime without scratching anything. Works on derailleur pulleys too for a quiet, smooth shift. Sometimes the simplest tools already sitting in your junk drawer are the best ones.
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That inner tube trick sounds like a lot of work for a chain.
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