{"id":65,"date":"2008-04-15T11:59:01","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T03:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/15\/the-single-purpose-gadget-that-could\/"},"modified":"2008-06-26T02:29:26","modified_gmt":"2008-06-25T18:29:26","slug":"the-single-purpose-gadget-that-could","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/15\/the-single-purpose-gadget-that-could\/","title":{"rendered":"The single-purpose gadget that could"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not generally a fan of single-purpose gadgets, but when they&#8217;re eminently effective and will get a lot of use, I&#8217;m down. Garlic press? Oh yeah. Chain scrubber? HELL yeah.<\/p>\n<p>One of my Nashbar purchases was the Park Cyclone Chain Scrubber. Chains are just a bitch to keep clean, in my experience. I&#8217;ve done okay with Maia so far because I only ride her in dry conditions, but the commuter bike gets ridden in the wet and I don&#8217;t necessarily take care of its every little ding and bit of gunk. The chain was horribly encrusted with gunk that I despaired of getting out, despite regular attempts to clean it.<\/p>\n<p>The scrubber works pretty darn well. I tested it on Maia first to get the hang of it, and got a lot of dirt off there. The chain still benefited from a good wipedown with a cloth after, to get gunk out of little corners and give a general once-over, but it was much easier to deal with.<\/p>\n<p>Then I took it outside to Minerva, along with a ton of degreaser. I had to run it many times over on the chain, vigorously, then wipe off the chain and cogs, then run it many times over again with a clean apparatus and degreaser. Finally the chain appeared from under the gunk and actually began to look truly clean! I&#8217;m hoping that regular sessions with the scrubber will keep me from having to deal with so much accumulated gunk again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not generally a fan of single-purpose gadgets, but when they&#8217;re eminently effective and will get a lot of use, I&#8217;m down. Garlic press? Oh yeah. Chain scrubber? HELL yeah. One of my Nashbar purchases was the Park Cyclone Chain Scrubber. Chains are just a bitch to keep clean, in my experience. I&#8217;ve done okay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lyspeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}