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Chains into melted Fat -dripping etc

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68AutoBug Beetle Restorer - Experience over 138\% - YIKES --

11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#14887
An old Wheat harverster's trick was to take all the roller chains of his mechanical Grain Harvester at the end of the season.
Probably 20 or 30 or more.... and boil them in Fat or Dripping and leave them in the drum [which has solidified] until the next year.... I wonder who had the job of getting the chains out of the fat .. YUK....
Anyway.. the fat filled up all the gaps in the chain and stopped dust from wearing the chains out... which happened if they oiled them.... I do really know that VWs don't have chains.....😀:o
- Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY---

KruizinKombi Seriously Obsessed Cyber Dubber

3,493 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#15187
Sounds like a great way to preserve engine bits and the like. I dunno where I'd find a drum full of dripping though!
Kruizin Kol