“They are great for preparing new chains to a better level than can be done with container cleaning, but again honestly, the difference is small no one would notice, and if on a good lubricant, you should be needing to prepare chains so infrequently that the cost would not be worth it – i.e., your chain should be lasting 10,000 to 15,000km’s to 0.5% - if it isn’t, you need a better lubricant choice and or maintenance,” he said in an email referring to the process of preparing race chains.
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The Park Tool CM-25 Professional Chain Scrubber is a workshop quality tool, and will leave you with a pretty clean chain if you're not removing it from your bike (Image credit: Colin Levitch)Īdam Kerin, the man behind Zero Friction Cycling, which is one of the last remaining independent chain lube friction testing outfits, agrees ultrasonic cleaners can do a great job cleaning chains, with a few caveats.
You can run a chain through a scrubber, and when you sit it in a parts washer heaps gunk will still come out of it,” he continues. “I’d also say that cleaning a chain is definitely far superior to something like a chain scrubber. Instead of scrubbing the cassette by hand, I just chuck it in there for a couple of cycles, and off you go,” McKillop says. Before, I’d just use a bucket and degreaser and do it by hand, and for me, the ultrasonic cleaner saves a bit of time.
“I always take the cassette off when I’ve given a bike a good clean. Lachlan McKillop, SRAM Australia’s Technical University Manager, has recently added an ultrasonic cleaner to his personal workshop.
The ultimate solution to keeping your drivetrain sparkly clean? After a couple of stars wipes to show the passage of time, immaculate clean looking parts emerge from the bath. Take a quick tour around YouTube, and you will find all manner of videos showing people dropping black chains caked in grime into ultrasonic cleaners.
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