Re: Chain Waxing, hot, Why it Works?

In article <8JCdnY68covMSZHZRVn-rg@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
Peter Cole <peter_cole@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Michael Press wrote:
In article <sZydnX21At1Q6ZHZRVn-pQ@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
Peter Cole <peter_cole@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


41 wrote:


[...]


Have you
ever rubbed paraffin, better, under some pressure, whether between
fingers or between links? It is not slippery.

Have you never walked on a freshly waxed floor? Have you never waxed
wooden drawers? The phenomenon you are describing is viscosity.


First what do you mean by waxed floor?
Coated with paraffin wax?
Coated with a mixture of paraffin wax and mineral oil?
A commercial liquid wax? What is in it?

Paste floor wax -- the old-fashioned kind. What's in it? Wax and
solvents usually.

Strictly speaking wax is an ester of glycerol and two
fatty acids. Paraffin `wax' is long chain alkanes and
rings. They are very different chemical species. For one
thing there is oxygen in wax, and none in paraffin.
Arguing from a floor coated with carnauba in low pressure
applications to a bicycle chain coated with paraffin wax
in a high pressure, high duty cycle application is not on.

A wood or linoleum floor coated with a film of paraffin
wax is not slippery.

Sure it is.

So when did you coat a floor with paraffin wax?

[...]

--
Michael Press
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