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Hp Chain Lube...

swerv512

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Ok. I just bought a new can of HP Chain Lube (RED 13 oz can) after using the blue cans of HP chain lube for about a year. I thought that maybe honda just changed the color of the can (doh!), but i notice now that the blue cans of lube had WHITE GRAPHITE in its contents. The lube from the red can goes on really lightly, almost like water compared to the formula with white graphite. The blue can's spray was nice and thick, although i hate cleaning fling-off. Am I wrong in thinking that this stuff in the red can isn't as "good" for lack of a better word as the blue cans containing the white graphite???
 
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Ok. So i did some research and found this here:
http://materials.globalspec.com/Lea...ustrial_Oils_Fluids/Solid_Dry_Film_Lubricants

Solid and dry film lubricants vary widely in terms of chemical composition. Some products contain boron nitride (BN) or “white graphite”, a chemically inert compound that provides high thermal conductivity and low thermal expansion.

So someone explain what "thermal conductivity" has to do with my chain.
 
Your chain gets hot, high thermal condictivity only means that it is not a good insulator.
 
Your chain gets hot, high thermal condictivity only means that it is not a good insulator.
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So, wouldn't that mean that the high thermal condictivity (not a good insulator) would facilitate HIGH, not low- like the website says, thermal expansion. reasoning that:
an insulator by definition resists the flow of energy. In comparison, a conductor facilitates flows readily.

So as heat is created and transferred by a moving chain, wouldn't that make for a rise in thermal expansion of the chain and its components?

Follow me? or am i making myself even more confused?
 
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Problem Solved, huh. I gotta go check this stuff out.;) ;) ;)



*i'm getting sick of seeing my face all the freakin time...*
 
swerv512 said:
So, wouldn't that mean that the high thermal condictivity (not a good insulator) would facilitate HIGH, not low- like the website says, thermal expansion. reasoning that:
an insulator by definition resists the flow of energy. In comparison, a conductor facilitates flows readily.

So as heat is created and transferred by a moving chain, wouldn't that make for a rise in thermal expansion of the chain and its components?

Follow me? or am i making myself even more confused?
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thermal expansion and thermal conductivity are relatively unrelated properties.

thermal conductivity is defined as how well a material transfers heat based on how much thermal gradient is driving the heat transfer. thermal expansion is defined as how much something expands as a result of temperature increase.

you can have a material that transfers heat well but doesn't expand in response to heat.

and the chain wax is the product i use...
 
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thermal expansion and thermal conductivity are relatively unrelated properties
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Ahhhhhh. It's all coming together now. Thanks for clearing it up.

Funny because I didn't know Hunters Point made a steak sauce...
I woulda thougth maybe more of a BBQ marinate myself.
 
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