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>biodegradable degreaser combined with a wax adhesion promoter (primer) which allows for fast, single step preparation of factory chains for waxing while also improving wax adhesion and increasing longevity of bike chain.
the active ingredient candidates could be citrus degreaser, stearic acid and polyurethane adhesive.

A clean chain is all you need because wax adheres fine to bare stainless steel. An intermediary layer between the wax and steel will need to be protected by religious waxing schedule or need to be redone each time. You can just add teflon and microcrystalline wax (nivea/Chapstick) to increase the longevity of basic paraffin waxing 3x if you really want to fill in every micro gap of the surface but it all falls out eventually.

To prep any chain for first wax: wash with degreaser for the outer chain, then turps soak for internal cleaning, then metho final cleanse to dry to bare metal. If you skip the mineral terpentine soak for the deepest clean of the internal rings which had oil in them it's ok, it's just your first immersion will be dirty with lots of seepage into your clean wax and you should add stearic acid (found in tubes of shaving cream) to the paraffin wax to convert that old liquid oil left in the chain to hard wax/plastic layer. Optionally you can filter the metal fines out of the now dirty wax with n95 mask if you want to reuse it.

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