If you read my recent article on recoding dx barcodes, you will have read me suggesting a sharp implement to scratch away the black patches. Which means either trimming leaders before I go out, or carrying my Leatherman squirt S4… Which is attached to my house key, and has a pair of handy scissors folded into it. Stubbornly I ignored the advice, and actually had no problems at all… But when I brought up the subject on the “ film photographers union” Facebook group I was informed once again, that yes, a trimmed leader is necessary for an easy loading process. The little picture on the inside of the baseplate shows a long thin leader, I’d been told by it’s previous owner a trimmed leader was useful, and read online it helped. Having recently acquired a Barnack Leica and not wanting to get it wrong I had a quick read online about how best to load film into it.
7 or 8 years later and I’m still using it, and to this day it continues to prove more and more useful within this hobby of mine. My response was to explain that I hadn’t bought the girls tool I had bought the photographers tool.
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The excess wax is pretty easy to get rid of: it doesn't readily fall off of its own accord but a quick brush buffs up your chain nicely, and dirt doesn't stick to it like it would with a wet lube.When I first bought the leatherman Squirt S4 a mate of mine (an action film watching, swears at football on the TV and drinks a lot of lager type mate) told me I had bought a “girls multi tool”. I was sceptical about Squirt's claim that "excess wax gets expelled by the chain and falls off during riding - cleaning with a dry brush is adequate", but it turns out there's some truth in that. In terms of longevity it's not quite up with the best wet lubes, but it's much better than most of the other dry and wax lubes I've tested. Squirt market the wax lube at MTBers as well as roadies, and it's certainly a good choice for both. I wouldn't expect any lube to survive that and the chain showed some evidence of rust the next day after a hose down, but it wasn't noisy - there was still some lube in there, so it's pretty tenacious stuff. The Squirt lube easily survived 30-odd miles of normal commuting in all weathers, at which point it faced about the sternest test possible: 40 miles in the salt, snow and rain finishing up on the muddy, puddle-strewn canal towpath. The milky-white liquid is easy to see on the chain, and when the water evaporates you get that slightly greasy wax-lube feel. The first test was to add some to a dryish chain and see how it fared under normal conditions. That means it's more environmentally friendly, and it doesn't seem to affect the penetration. The Squirt people describe their wax lube as "an emulsion that is blended under special controlled conditions from a number of waxes" - it's basically a suspension of the wax in water, which differs from most wax lubes that dissolve the wax in an VOC-based carrier. You can just slap this stuff on, and after a few applications when excess wax starts to build up on the chain, you can easily brush it off, keeping your chain nice and clean. Good lube, this, and not to be confused with delicate wax lubes that demand you soak your chain in lavender oil for three weeks and then pick out the dirt with a toothpick before you apply it.
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