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Spray lubricant recommendations
I would like to get some spray lube to use, occasionally, on my derailleurs.
Rather than buy the expensive bike specific stuff, like Finish Line; could I use some of the spray lubes available at my local auto parts store? They have silicon spray lube, etc.. Is that stuff safe for bikes and bike parts? Especially carbon fibre parts? J. Spaceman |
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On Jul 22, 5:45*pm, Jason Spaceman
wrote: I would like to get some spray lube to use, occasionally, on my derailleurs. * Rather than buy the expensive bike specific stuff, like Finish Line; could I use some of the spray lubes available at my local auto parts store? *They have silicon spray lube, etc.. *Is that stuff safe for bikes and bike parts? * Especially carbon fibre parts? Pretty much anything you can buy at Autozone is safe except for DOT3 brake fluid. Bikes aren't terribly complicated or machines that operate at high rpms. You can use the cheapest grease at the Zone in your hubs and it'll work fine as long as it's replaced when contaminated. Buy a quart of Mobil-1 and put some in a squeeze bottle and you'll be lubed for years. Most of the spray "lubes" sold at autoparts stores are penetrating lubes--meant for loosening rusty fasteners, but not the most effective on derailleur bushings. |
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On 22 July, 23:45, Jason Spaceman
wrote: I would like to get some spray lube to use, occasionally, on my derailleurs. * Rather than buy the expensive bike specific stuff, like Finish Line; could I use some of the spray lubes available at my local auto parts store? *They have silicon spray lube, etc.. *Is that stuff safe for bikes and bike parts? * Especially carbon fibre parts? I was with you all the way, until you swore. Its the filler between the carbon which may have problems with the solvents used in the lubes. Dunno is my answer. If you can get the shop to say it is suitable, that would make them liable in the UK. Else look for a descriptor on the package which would cover generally for bicycles if not specifically with carbon fibre. Make sure company has plenty of collateral or massive product liability insurance. I think that it would be best to use a lube without propellant. |
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On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:45:20 -0400, Jason Spaceman
wrote: I would like to get some spray lube to use, occasionally, on my derailleurs. Rather than buy the expensive bike specific stuff, like Finish Line; could I use some of the spray lubes available at my local auto parts store? They have silicon spray lube, etc.. Is that stuff safe for bikes and bike parts? Especially carbon fibre parts? J. Spaceman Dear J, Dupont Teflon spray wax at Lowes, $5: http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?actio...101&lpage=none I'm quite happy with it in a dry climate. If a lubricant is going to damage your carbon fiber bike, your bike ought to come with large warning stickers not to oil the chain with anything except pure spermaceti oil. Cheers, Carl Fogel |
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On 23 July, 01:37, wrote:
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:45:20 -0400, Jason Spaceman wrote: I would like to get some spray lube to use, occasionally, on my derailleurs. * Rather than buy the expensive bike specific stuff, like Finish Line; could I use some of the spray lubes available at my local auto parts store? *They have silicon spray lube, etc.. *Is that stuff safe for bikes and bike parts? * Especially carbon fibre parts? J. Spaceman Dear J, Dupont Teflon spray wax at Lowes, $5: http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?actio...ductId=213197-.... I'm quite happy with it in a dry climate. If a lubricant is going to damage your carbon fiber bike, your bike ought to come with large warning stickers not to oil the chain with anything except pure spermaceti oil. Sales of carbon fibre frames are not going to dwindle because of a few chainstay failures after three or four years use. The manufacturers choose the price the market will pay. When they produce them by the million then lower prices and greater longevity will prevail. |
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On Jul 22, 9:40*pm, Jason Spaceman
wrote: Interesting. *Although I'm in Canada and there aren't any Lowes around here (well I think there are a few, but they are in, or around the Toronto area, too far away from me). I think Canadian Tire sells Liquid Wrench Super Lubricant with PTFE, would something like that work with a derailleur? *I think PTFE is just the generic name for Teflon, innit? MEC sells Super Lubehttp://tinyurl.com/nf8236which also has PTFE, although it's a bit more expensive than the Liquid Wrench stuff. Super Lube is a classic dry lube. Works fine, and that's a huge can. |
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landotter wrote:
On Jul 22, 9:40 pm, Jason Spaceman wrote: Interesting. Although I'm in Canada and there aren't any Lowes around here (well I think there are a few, but they are in, or around the Toronto area, too far away from me). I think Canadian Tire sells Liquid Wrench Super Lubricant with PTFE, would something like that work with a derailleur? I think PTFE is just the generic name for Teflon, innit? MEC sells Super Lubehttp://tinyurl.com/nf8236which also has PTFE, although it's a bit more expensive than the Liquid Wrench stuff. Super Lube is a classic dry lube. Works fine, and that's a huge can. It's also food grade http://www.superlubesynthetic.com/aerosol1.htm |
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On Jul 22, 8:37*pm, wrote:
If a lubricant is going to damage your carbon fiber bike, your bike ought to come with large warning stickers not to oil the chain with anything except pure spermaceti oil. Cheers, Carl Fogel Ah yes, the whale. Oil refinery of the 19th century. Owen Chase provides a good description of bucketing the oil out of the head of a good sized sperm whale while asea off the coast of Brazil in his recounting of the loss of the whale ship Essex. Cheers, MD |
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z wrote:
landotter wrote: On Jul 22, 9:40 pm, Jason Spaceman wrote: Interesting. Although I'm in Canada and there aren't any Lowes around here (well I think there are a few, but they are in, or around the Toronto area, too far away from me). I think Canadian Tire sells Liquid Wrench Super Lubricant with PTFE, would something like that work with a derailleur? I think PTFE is just the generic name for Teflon, innit? MEC sells Super Lubehttp://tinyurl.com/nf8236which also has PTFE, although it's a bit more expensive than the Liquid Wrench stuff. Super Lube is a classic dry lube. Works fine, and that's a huge can. It's also food grade http://www.superlubesynthetic.com/aerosol1.htm Super-Lube is highly regarded among amateur astronomers, particularly for its thermal stability. It does not turn runny at higher (ambient) temperatures, nor does it cake up hard at lower (sub-freezing) temperatures. So far I have not found any to try it myself tho' (running lube is a much larger problem for a telescope than for a bicycle....). ----- I would think that any lube that was wet and has teflon would be good enough. I just use the Tri-flow lube myself. Horribly runny but seems to do okay for on-road bikes that don't get dirty much. I prefer the squeeze bottle as the sprayer makes such a huge mess. Use the aerosol can only outdoors, and only somewhere in the grass that you don't mind killing the grass. It will dissolve asphalt, and is near-impossible to wash off concrete........ ~ |
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