[net.bicycle] Wax as a chain lube; and apology

wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) (04/05/85)

One comment I'd like to make regardng "parafin" on chains, either for bicycles
or motorcycles (this has also been discussed on net.bicycle):
Some of this information originated with written material that came,
originally, from Great Britain.. There, the word "parafin" does NOT mean the
white waxy stuff we use for candles or sealing home-made jellies; it means
what we call "kerosene". The material usually referred to a method of CLEANING 
a chain, as we would refer to washing it in kerosene (now largely
supplanted by more exotic solvents).

While using American "parafin" as a chain lubricant may work, I think it
has been due more to luck than to planning... :-)