Chain lube

I'm in the marine air belt and everything that isn't stored in a garage eventually gets rusty, so wiping down your bike with oily rags regularly here isn't bad practice.
I'm originally from New England myself...Boston, Cape Cod, New Hampshire Seacoast communities, etc.
I know all about rust conducive climates...lol...lol...lol.

But on the plus side, I'm great with boats from small sail boats to 300 footers with multi decks and a wheel house with twin or more engines...I miss that...I don't get too many opportunities to go boating in the ocean sitting here in the high deserts of New Mexico these last 14 years...lol...lol.
 
I'm originally from New England myself...Boston, Cape Cod, New Hampshire Seacoast communities, etc.
I know all about rust conducive climates...lol...lol...lol.

But on the plus side, I'm great with boats from small sail boats to 300 footers with multi decks and a wheel house with twin or more engines...I miss that...I don't get too many opportunities to go boating in the ocean sitting here in the high deserts of New Mexico these last 14 years...lol...lol.
I have to admit I'm really easily seasick. I was invited to go Salmon fishing over the bar here a couple decades back, I was initially fine for about an hour as I was getting used to baiting and working the heavier salmon fishing gear, the swell started getting a little heavier. This was a Pacific Oregon coast Summer seas and they usually border on small craft advisories, but this was pretty gentle, probably 4'~6' swells.

The boat was a fiberglass 18' trihull with a Mercruiser V8 probably not the best over the bar fishing vessel.

I was getting pretty ill towards the end. I managed to not lose my lunch and we decided it was better fishing in the bay channel. I did catch a few Rock Cod and a Sea Greenling as we trolled the bay channel so it wasn't a bad ending.
 
I tried the dry lubes years ago, I wasn't impressed, I will stick with sinking my chains in WD-40 for 24 hours to clean them out and then soaking them in synthetic gear lube for another 24 hours and hung on my fence in intense sunlight to drain off excess oil and then wipe it down and reinstall on the bike...Seems to work out quite well for me...lol.
Sounds to me like your hand washing clothes there or BBQing 200 years ago style.
 
Chainsaw chain oil. Clings well, doesn't fling off easily. Just paint some on with a paint brush and wipe the excess off with a rag.
My only misgivings of running bar and chain lube in a dry desert environment such as the one I live in is Its super thick and may not really penetrate down into the rollers, and it’s definitely super tacky which is going to attract a lot of dirt and dust and become super abrasive.
 
easy work around for thick sticky oils is to heat the oil and chain together at the same time, and then let them cool. A cheap deep fryer is great for doing it, and something I used to do with heavy gear oil and standard chains.
All I gotta do is take my chains out of the gear oil I like to use and hang it on my chain link fence which is totally exposed to the very hot desert sun so it drip drys and heats the chain with the oil that clings to it to where it is untouchable without a rag or wait for nightfall to pluck it off the fence...lol...lol.
 
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