[AT] General questions

[Stephen Offiler]

If the chain is not sealed, applying lube to the outside will allow
capillary action to draw the lube to the inside where you need it.  It
doesn't hurt to have some on the outside to lube the contact between the
rollers and the sprocket teeth.

Modern motorcycle chains are o-ring sealed and the lube is exclusively for
the roller/sprocket teeth.  Surely Spencer's chain is not sealed!

SO


On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 7:22 AM, Henry Miller <hank at millerfarm.com> wrote:

> I wouldn't expect most attempts to lubricate a chain to make a
> difference. You need the lube inside, but you are putting it on the
> outside.
>
> --
>   Henry Miller
>   hank at millerfarm.com
>
> On Tue, Nov 14, 2017, at 04:42 AM, Herb Metz wrote:
> > Decades ago when I had an English motorcycle as my sole means of school
> > transportation, that same chain lubrication concern arose.  With/without
> > lubrication did not seem to significantly affect chain life, and
> > lubrication
> > would occasionally spot the back of one's clothing; so no lubrication.
> > We had many chains on our old 1930s Case 12' combine; Dad never
> > lubricated
> > them.  He made sure every bearing (32 of them) got zerk gun grease
> > lubrication; I had to count them as I lubricated them.  Herb(GA)
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Spencer Yost
> > Sent: Monday, November 13, 2017 9:23 PM
> > To: at at lists.antique-tractor.com
> > Subject: [AT] General questions
> >
> > I have two general questions that I have always wanted answers to, and I
> > seem too intellectually challenged enough to solve on my own:
> >
> > How do you oil very long chains(i.e. my baler or sawmill) without wasting
> > tons of oil and making a mess?  I sit there with a plunger style oil can
> > and
> > oil when it's running.  But even  that seems sub optimal. There has to be
> > a
> > better way?
> >
> > As Dean VP indicated in an earlier post, I should use WD-40 to hunt for
> > vacuum leaks on my 430. I have done that before, and I did it again with
> > the
> > 430(to no avail). But I did hear many years ago that the only reason that
> > WD40 used to work is because butane was the propellant and it no longer
> > is
> > the propellant.  Is that true?  Is there a better way to find vacuum
> > leaks?
> > An unlit propane torch came to mind but sounded dangerous.
> >
> > Thanks!  Inquiring minds want to know.
> >
> > Spencer Yost
> >
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