[rwest]

I’m using 4 chains; more on this later...

So first off, you put mineral spirits in the ultrasonic cleaner and run the chains through, then a run with degreaser, rinse the degreaser off with water and then do a final clean with Acetone. The first chain in the Acetone turned the liquid white- yup, I neglected to think that the plastic basket for holding small parts would get melted by the Acetone, oops!

After all chain were clean, I heated up the wax in the crockpot and submerged chain one. You need to then let the wax cool just to the point of it starting to turn solid then you remove the chain and hang it to dry.

If you pull the chain out hot, the wax will just run out of the inner parts of the chain, if you wait too long too pull it out, you have huge chucks of wax on your chain- no problem, heat it up again and do better. Seems like 148F is the sweet spot.

I built a board with 4 nails in it to hang the chains on to cool.