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Dry sprockets in oven ?
Had to do a deep clean on the drivechain at the w/e but what is the best way to get it dry?
Would sprockets in the oven be ok ?
Not sure about the chain though or would that be ok ?
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It's 2023. Use an air fryer, obvs, or risk missing out.
Cycling-specific fryers will soon launch, with options for 10, 11 or 12 speed cassettes, for £299.99.
How do you even think of this just leave it for a bit or use a towel. You should never use a oven you use to cook with to dry bike parts or anything else beside food
It would be rather clean (possibly using an ultra sound bath). How is that any different from a baking tray, roasting tin, cake tin, springform tin?
I once used an oven at low temp to dry a chain that was first stripped with naphta, rinsed with isopropanol, then ultrasonically cleaned, then rinsed with water. It smells a bit even at low temperature. Since all smells are particulate, something comes off and I'm not too sure that that something is safe to breathe in.
Since all smells are particulate
I can't let you get away with that! - except in the sense that all gases consist of atoms and relatively small molecules and could therefore be described in a philosophical sense as 'particulate'
I doubt that any lingering smell will impact your health, though it's worth avoiding fumes from petroleum products and isopropanol alcohol.
it's worth avoiding fumes from petroleum products and isopropanol alcohol
I am suffering from an infection with staphylococcus pedantreus, so you can't have 'isopropanol alcohol'
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isopropyl_alcohol
I think wtjs is referring to a "The La Brea Tar pits" thing there - "-ol" suffix is already specifying you've an alcohol (in chemistry parlance) already so I think wtjs is saying the "alcohol" is redundant.
Although it could be a case of "whiskey, whiskey - so good they named it twice"?
If it's a fan oven reduce the temperature by 10 degrees.
Baste with wax before cooling on a rack.
Serves 1 (except for tandem recipies)
just dry it with an old towel or some kitchen roll / bog roll
just dry it with an old towel or some kitchen roll
I too have been glancing at this topic with amazement. The technology 'solutions' to a problem which hardly exists. Shake off the water and it dries, you apply the wax or whatever and anyway it's going to be soaked again soon.
Likewise. I can understand not wanting to lube a chain while it's still wet - but sprockets in the oven...?
No problem. Convection oven at 80C or so.
My chains are cleaned ultrasonically and finished in the oven before relube.
Sprockets will be fine, remove any plastic though ...
these guys that are allowed bike bits in the house!!
If you are a bouffant type, use a hair dryer.
Or just put it on a floor with under-floor heating if you have one.
Aaaah. That's WHY the Romans had under floor heating.
What did the Romans ever dry for us....?
I wouldn't worry about a chain but be wary of a cassette which may have plastic spaces.
Would appear fine If done with care
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLiBIKfrjfU
An oven works fine but don't overdo it with the heat, 60 centigrade, forced convection is fine. Word of warning: it smells a bit and spouses generally don't like to see their appliances abused, especially not if you can't be bothered to cook actual food in them.
Hmm, in my household I do the cooking!
If you have a pet dryer that would be fine or indoors by the heating system.
Slow and low.
If I want to speed up drying I rest the metalware on a bit kitchen towel on top of a radiator.