maru lube on bike chain?

[deathbypapercutz]

I remember reading back in the day (before cube-specific lubes such as Maru or Lubix became popular) about people trying bike chain lube in their cubes. I'm wondering whether anybody has tried the opposite; in particular, whether anybody has tried Maru lube on their bike chain.

As you might have guessed, I've got an old bike with an old bike chain and plenty of Maru lube, but no bike chain lube. Now, I could simply buy some, but that would be too easy. I'm probably going to try Maru anyway, but just thought I'd ask here on the off chance that somebody has had any experience with this, or has enough knowledge to conclude that it would be a terrible idea.

Thanks!

 

[Carson]

Maru lube is extremely thin... I suspect most of it would just run off. I also imagine what stays would last only a few minutes.

 

[SenileGenXer]

I have used traxxis like differential oil on a lot of plastic things to great effect. It's really awesome the chap plastic things I can repair or improve. Mechanical parts of a barbie dream house that was $300 cheap needed lube. I used lube on the elevator where it passes between floors and maru lube dripped into the automatic pop up flat screen TV that was jammed when it arrived but works now. I've used similar lube on other children's toys my daughters wanted to work or to work better.

I've used Traxxis like lube on a bike pump that had a big rubber o-ring gasket in plastic housing, and a few other outdoor plastic things.

Bike chains are all metal and part of using a grease or other lube on a chain is additives taking off some of the rust that may be there and repelling water that may accumulate on the chain. I don't think silicone lube (maru probably is a silicone suspension/colloid) would work too well there. A big part of lubing or winterizing a bike is repelling water with petroleum products. Maru's medium for the solution might be water and the silicone that does stay after evaporation of the medium would be very hard to clean out of the chain if you needed to.

Look up how a bike is supposed to be serviced before inventing your own solution. I'm not against having ones own solutions and/or being cheap I'm just in favor of having the knowledge of how things are normally done.

Edit: cheap way to fix up a bike is to go to the auto store/hardware store buy a tube of grease - you don't need the grease gun. Take it home pop the end off and use your fingers to apply grease to the chain, any exposed break/gear lines and if the bike is very dry plug up where the lines enter and exit protective tubing. Messy and primitive but effective winterizing about $3

 

[deathbypapercutz]

gotcha, thanks. I'm new to this so I figured I'd just start trying things and figure out what works, but at the same time I definitely don't want to do anything that's hard to reverse. I ended up buying some dedicated chain lube... wish me luck.