chain cleaning tutorial

mp183 · December 24, 2004, 01:14:59 PM

This is from a guy on one of the SV650 boards.

http://www.kuhnco.com/SuzukiSV/ChainCleaning.htm

This is site.

http://www.suzukisv650.info/

Just look on the left side and click on Tutorials.
He has a couple of other things that might be of interest.

se7enty7 · December 24, 2004, 02:02:52 PM

I still want to know what's better to CLEAN it..

kerosene
diesel fuel
wd40??

dish soap??

manofthefield · December 24, 2004, 02:41:31 PM

kerosene.

se7enty7 · December 24, 2004, 04:15:08 PM

where can kerosene be bought?

AR5ENAL · December 24, 2004, 04:46:06 PM

the kerosene store :nana:

j/k. you can usually find kerosene at your local hardware shop (OSH, Ace, Lowe's, Home Depot, &c.)

se7enty7 · December 24, 2004, 06:25:34 PM

Quote from: AR5ENALthe kerosene store :nana:

j/k. you can usually find kerosene at your local hardware shop (OSH, Ace, Lowe's, Home Depot, &c.)

which I suppose isn't open xmas day :x

pixelmonkey · December 24, 2004, 07:29:09 PM

Quote from: se7enty7
Quote from: AR5ENALthe kerosene store :nana:

j/k. you can usually find kerosene at your local hardware shop (OSH, Ace, Lowe's, Home Depot, &c.)

which I suppose isn't open xmas day :x

nope!

another suggestion is... check with some gas stations! they sometimes have a kerosene next to a diesel pump

chris<pixelmonkey>

Kerry · December 24, 2004, 08:49:16 PM

Quote from: pixelmonkeycheck with some gas stations! they sometimes have a kerosene next to a diesel pump

Yeah ... see? 'Course, this isn't your regular gas station. Probably not your regular kerosene either. :dunno:

Michael · December 24, 2004, 10:35:12 PM

Ok, Kerry, I'll bite. Where is that gas station? Is it where you usually fuel up?

pixelmonkey · December 24, 2004, 11:12:52 PM

there are 2 gas stations within 2 miles of my parents in missouri that have kerosene...

and 1 about 2&1/2 miles from my appartment in stillwater

just have to look!
chris<pixelmonkey>

Kerry · December 24, 2004, 11:24:10 PM

Quote from: MichaelWhere is that gas station? Is it where you usually fuel up?

No, it's about 9 or 10 miles from my place. I looked it up after Rema1000 (who runs E85 in his GS) told that he had seen a listing for an E85 station in Provo, Utah - the city bordering Orem to the south.

That "station" is across the street from the railroad tracks, in a part of town I wasn't very familiar with....

Michael · December 25, 2004, 09:00:56 AM

Quote from: Kerry
Quote from: MichaelWhere is that gas station? Is it where you usually fuel up?
No, it's about 9 or 10 miles from my place. I looked it up after Rema1000 (who runs E85 in his GS) told that he had seen a listing for an E85 station in Provo, Utah - the city bordering Orem to the south.

That "station" is across the street from the railroad tracks, in a part of town I wasn't very familiar with....

Hmm. I'd never even heard of E85 prior to this thread. I knew some people O/S ran alcohol, mainly Brazil and so on. We had a huge to do here in Oz a while back when some of the oil companies said they were going to add about 10% EtOH to the petrol. People got worried and now a lot of the stations have signs up assuring ustheir petrol contains none of it. I don't really understand what's so bad about it.

bikenut · December 25, 2004, 11:04:51 AM

WD-40 works fine and will not harm anything. After you clean it, get the chain warm and then use chain wax

mp183 · December 25, 2004, 12:06:35 PM

Quote from: se7enty7where can kerosene be bought?

You could have asked Santa but it's too late.
You'll have to wait for the Easter bunny.

I'm bad so he never stops by my house, so I just siphon off a couple
quarts from his sled when he is delivering toys to my neighbors.
His sled actually runs on Kero. Those damn reindeer are just for show.
:lol:

Kerry · December 25, 2004, 12:31:18 PM

Quote from: MichaelHmm. I'd never even heard of E85 prior to this thread.

Sorry to continue the thread hijack, but check out this thread from April, May and October.

Also, see Rema1000's modest but useful web page HERE.

sprint_9 · December 25, 2004, 05:37:44 PM

Put some of that 100 octane in the GS and see how she does. I bet it will run like a champ for a few miles. :lol:

Michael · December 26, 2004, 03:45:56 AM

Quote from: Kerry
Quote from: MichaelHmm. I'd never even heard of E85 prior to this thread.
Sorry to continue the thread hijack, but check out this thread from April, May and October.

Also, see Rema1000's modest but useful web page HERE.

Thanks, Kerry. That was interesting. Still think I'll stick with petrol for the moment.

Cal Price · December 26, 2004, 04:00:31 AM

We call it "Parafin" and it is available at some filling stations, hardwares and some chemists/pharmacys in smaller quantities. It's what you put in an "oil" lamp.

Kerry · December 26, 2004, 05:38:04 PM

Quote from: Cal PriceWe call it "Parafin" [...] It's what you put in an "oil" lamp.

By "it" you mean kerosene, right? And not E85?

When I was a kid my mom would buy blocks of "paraffin" in a box. She would melt it down in a double boiler and we would make candles out of it. Like so:

Around the same time I read a UK-authored novel about a shipwrecked polar bear swimming ashore on a small island, and the measures the inhabitants took to deal with the threat. Was I ever confused when I read about the main character pouring paraffin into a lamp...!

BTW, here's something I found while searching for an image like the one above. If Mom only knew that she had us messing about with rocket fuel!

Candle wax is rocket science: Paraffin fuels test launch [/list:u]

Cal Price · December 27, 2004, 02:54:44 AM

That's right, Parafin = Kerosene

Not to be confused with Parafin wax that you describe or
"Liquid Parafin" which is something else again, not sure what but if you mix it with Petroleum Gell (Vasaline ?) you get that 1950's "Greasy kid stuff" that the young Elvis and a million other guys put on their hair. Ugh!

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