Ohio_Roadie wrote:
Has anyone tried using ski waxes from Toko, Swix or others to hot wax a race chain? I have some Swix Cera F powder leftover from a previous life chapter and was thinking about giving it a go on the bike. Race ski waxes are obsurd at $160-200 per 20-30g vs. MSW at $20 per pound, and this might be getting down to splitting hairs with “watts saved” but I think it would be interesting to see if the fluorocarbon ski waxes were any faster than what the bike industry currently offers.
A. I don't understand why you think products designed for the interface between snow and a ski base at temperatures around freezing and below (generally) would be fast at the interface between metal surfaces at temperatures around freezing and above (generally).
B. Swx Cera F is a pure fluorocarbon, not a wax, and it doesn't melt and flow like waxes. (Contrast to highly fluorinated waxes such as Swix HF and Toko Dibloc HF which do melt and flow, and cost half or a third of the prices you mention).
C. I don't see how you would apply Cera F powder to a chain.
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