A brand new ‘Final’ Chain Stripper and Wax Prep from Silca guarantees to ease and pace up the method of constructing your drivetrain quicker. Debuting this weekend for gravel racing at Unbound, Silca’s new ‘Final’ answer will strip the entire grease of your chain and have it prepared for his or her quickest wax-based lube in 10 minutes of much less, and also you don’t even have to drag the chain off your bike!
Silca Final Chain Stripper and Wax Prep makes you quicker
We’ve just about all come to simply accept that waxed chain lubrication is the trail to the bottom drivetrain friction and the fastest-spinning drivetrain on our bikes. However getting a correctly waxed chain isn’t simple.
Ranging from a factory-greased chain, it typically requires a number of degreasing and ultrasonic cleansing steps to get the chain clear sufficient to make wax lubes correctly stick. And in case you skimp on this step, the wax lubrication received’t correctly penetrate and cling to your chain, so that you received’t get these magic pace advantages. If you’re beginning with a used chain that’s already seen time in your bike, the method is much more fraught. Solely by eradicating the chain, and restarting the degreasing & ultrasonic cleansing course of do you might have any hope. And our personal expertise suggests that actually getting a used chain totally clear once more is a pipedream.
So what’s new right here?
Silca’s new answer makes it tremendous easy to scrub away that previous grease in your chain and make the leap to higher wax lubrication…
The brand new highly-concentrated, biodegradable degreaser that makes up the ‘Final Chain Stripper’ a part of this new combine cleans away your entire present chain lube. Then, the ‘Wax Prep’ half acts as a primer on the metallic of your chain to assist adhere your new wax lube with a single fast software.
Up till now, the most important hurdle for cyclists trying to improve to wax primarily based lubricants has been the time, chemical substances, and containers essential to correctly strip the manufacturing facility grease from the chain. Among the beneficial strategies use as many as 3 separate chemical substances and might take as much as 2 full days to finish. By taking a completely completely different method with this product, we’ve developed one thing that not solely strips the chain utterly of different lubricants, however truly leaves the metallic prepped for optimum adhesion of the wax. This can be a big win on each fronts, we’ve in the end elevated software longevity and efficiency of the lubricant, whereas decreasing the preparation time to attain this from hours to minutes!
– Josh Poertner, Silca CEO
How do you utilize it?
Nonetheless in your bike, first brush all of the gunky particles off your chainring, cassette & derailleur pulleys so you might have a fairly clear slate to work with.
Subsequent, simply apply a single drop of the brand new magic sauce onto every curler of the chain, let it sit for five minutes, then apply yet one more drop to every curler, then wait one other 5 minutes. After that, merely rinse it off with a hose – no stress washers please, however loads of water stream to flush out the entire degreased residue. Then, merely apply a drip-on lube like Silca’s Secret Chain Lube – aka Scorching Soften Wax in a bottle – and away you go together with a quicker chain.
The excellent news right here is that it’s suitable with different drip-on wax-based lubes, too – not solely Silca’s. And if you’re trying to scorching wax a sequence, this on-bike cleansing course of is designed to higher clear a used chain earlier than you’re taking it off, do the ultrasonic bathtub, and dip it into melted stable wax for additional long-lasting pace.
Silca Final Chain Stripper – Pricing, availability & choices
The brand new US-made Silca Final Chain Stripper and Wax Prep is accessible within the USA now and shall be coming very quickly to Europe, too.
It is available in two sizes, however the smaller one solely in a bundle with Silca’s secret lube. For $36 / 44€ you get a small 4oz/118ml bottle of Final Chain Stripper and Wax Prep mixed with a small 4oz/118ml bottle of Tremendous Secret Chain Lube. That’s mentioned to be sufficient to scrub round 4 chains, and make them super-fast.
The larger 16oz/473ml bottle of Final Chain Stripper and Wax Prep sells for a similar $36 / 44€ because the bundle, however shall be higher suited to cleansing and prepping greater than a dozen chains. Simply to be clear, it’s best to solely want to do that clear & prep work as soon as on a sequence earlier than you first apply a wax-based lubricant to it.
