{"id":15461,"date":"2019-11-17T10:10:56","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T10:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/?p=15461"},"modified":"2019-12-13T07:14:25","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T07:14:25","slug":"little-chemist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/?p=15461","title":{"rendered":"little chemist."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

i’m not a great fan of youtube; it’s generally just a great way to waste a lot of time. but every now and then there is a grain of wisdom in this massive flood of … um, you catch my drift. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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like the guy who cooks up his own chain lube. he made almost an hour of video about a rather scientific comparison of several wax base formulas, cleaning methods and cleaning devices. they were quite convincing too, honestly. i did like the idea of a home-cooked chain wax, though, these things are not cheap; then again neither are chains (add the chain rings as well, and don’t even mention the cassettes).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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so when kris was out of the house and access to the cooktop unimpeded i did a little experimenting of my own. one part candle wax, one part paraffin oil, warm it up and bathe the meticulously cleaned chain in it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

costs almost nothing and so far it works well enough. let’s see how it goes after a few weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

i’m not a great fan of youtube; it’s generally just a great way to waste a lot of time. but every now and then there is a grain of wisdom in this massive flood of … um, you catch my drift. like the guy who cooks up his own chain lube. he made almost an… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bikes","category-our-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/little_chemist-1-1.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7MvER-41n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15461"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15572,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15461\/revisions\/15572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zo-zo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}