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Topic: Can't Find Triflow |
Glen Derksen
From:
Alberta, Canada
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Posted 25 Dec 2008 11:40 am |
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| Can anyone please recommend a good teflon based lubricant as an alternative? Thanks. |
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Mark Eaton
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Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
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Posted 25 Dec 2008 11:54 am
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Have you tried a local bike shop?
I'm a long time cyclist, have been around the bike business a bit, and bike mechanics have used the stuff for decades.
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Billy McCombs
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Bakersfield California, USA
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Posted 25 Dec 2008 11:58 am
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Glen most Bike shops and some sporting good stores carry it, I guess thats why theres a bike on the front of the Bottle  I bought a small 2 oz bottle. works great. Thanks Billy Oh Mark beat me to it
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Bill Duncan
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Lenoir, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 25 Dec 2008 12:50 pm TriFlo
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Break Free, if you can get it, is as good or better! Bill Duncan
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Scott Howard
From:
Georgetown, TN, USA
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Posted 25 Dec 2008 2:12 pm
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| I have seen it on ebay several times. I just checked and several have it with a buy it now $1.87. |
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Dave Mudgett
From:
Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 25 Dec 2008 3:24 pm
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I've tried a bunch of alternatives, and for me there is no substitute for Tri-Flow.
Ditto on the bicycle shops. I can't remember the last time I was in a bicycle shop that didn't sell Tri-Flow. In fact, they're the only places to get it around here in this major university town.
You can get it online in a lot of places - last I looked, even amazon.com had it. It's great to be able to get a $10-12 can for $3-6 like with some online stores, but then you have to deal with shipping and so on. But if that was the only way, I'd do it. |
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Stu Schulman
From:
Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
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Posted 25 Dec 2008 3:31 pm
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Home Depot has it.
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Steve Feldman
From:
Central MA USA
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Posted 25 Dec 2008 3:39 pm
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Tri-Flo is (has been) displaced in many bike shops in favor of some more recent, high-tech lubricants - some with Teflon, some without. I'm a bike nut myself, and I've been using other things in recent years that give better performance (on the bike).
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Mark Eaton
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Sonoma County in The Great State Of Northern California
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Posted 25 Dec 2008 5:15 pm
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I use different kinds of chain lubes and so forth, but whenever I walk into a bike shop around here, I can still smell Tri-Flow around the repair areas.
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Dennis Saydak
From:
Manitoba, Canada
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Posted 25 Dec 2008 6:29 pm
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Why go to bike shops? Bill Rudolph (Williams Guitar Co.) sells a high quality teflon lube in a needle tipped applicator tube. I just ordered some from him.
PS, also ask him about his rockwell-hardened stainless steel tone bars.
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Tommy Young
From:
Ethelsville Alabama
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Posted 25 Dec 2008 6:33 pm
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I buy it by the case if you want some send me a mail
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Pit Lenz
From:
Cologne, Germany
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Posted 25 Dec 2008 7:43 pm
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Excuse me for hijacking this thread, but
could anybody spot a source in Europe (preferrably Germany) please?
thanks a lot
pit |
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Bo Borland
From:
South Jersey -
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Posted 25 Dec 2008 8:05 pm
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| Sherman Williams Co makes it, I get it at the local True Value or Ace hardware store. There's no website address on the bottle but they are located in Cleveland Ohio USA |
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D Schubert
From:
Columbia, MO, USA
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Posted 26 Dec 2008 10:41 am
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| Gun stores usually have it. |
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Glen Derksen
From:
Alberta, Canada
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Posted 26 Dec 2008 10:43 am
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| Ok, I've located some Triflow at a sports store. Thanks, guys! |
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Steve Feldman
From:
Central MA USA
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Posted 26 Dec 2008 11:52 am
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| Mark Eaton wrote: |
| I use different kinds of chain lubes and so forth, but whenever I walk into a bike shop around here, I can still smell Tri-Flow around the repair areas. |
Maybe that's a west coast thing....
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Don Brown, Sr.
From:
New Jersey
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Posted 26 Dec 2008 10:06 pm
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Speaking of Tri-Flow,
A friend stopped by who had picked up two, 2.0 oz. bottles, and dropped one off to me today.
The bottle label reads:
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TRI-FLOW
SUPERIOR
LUBRICANT
Penetrates & Protects
Formulated with P.T.F.E.
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The rear label reads:
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Copyright 2007 The Sherwin-Williams Company
Consumer Group - Industrial. Cleveland,OH 44115
Made in U.S.A. / Hecho en EE.UU. LTF2101OC
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I believe the Bike Shop, sold him the wrong stuff. I know he'd told them he wanted the one with TEFLON.
This sounds more to me, as a Penetrating and cleaning formula, than it does a Teflon Lubricant. I don't see the word "TEFLON" on the bottle anywhere.
Apparently, this is not the TRI-FLOW that's been discussed here: TRI-FLOW with TEFLON, on the Label.
Has anyone ever used this, to see how well it cleans?
Thanks,
Don |
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Ned McIntosh
From:
New South Wales, Australia
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Posted 26 Dec 2008 10:46 pm
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PTFE is the short name for poly-tetra-fluoro-ethylene. We call it Teflon.
Nylon is hexa-deca-methylene di-carboxylate, FWIW.
HNDP or Hexa-nitro-dipheynle-amine is the high explosive used in German magnetic mines of WW2.
dichloro-diphenyle-trichloro-ethane is DDT, a common bug eliminator, not to be confused with the CP/M operating system bug eliminator also called DDT which attacked and eliminated a mutually-exclusive type of bug!
Have to go now...I am off to the doctor to get my head lanced!
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Don Brown, Sr.
From:
New Jersey
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Posted 26 Dec 2008 11:20 pm
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Wow! Ned,
Thanks a lot for that answer! Now I'm off for that same Dr.. 
Thanks again,
Guess it's the right stuff after all.
Don |
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Dave Mudgett
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Central Pennsylvania and Gallatin, Tennessee
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Posted 27 Dec 2008 3:16 am
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| Yup - PTFE is Teflon. Tri-Flow comes in both a spray can and a drip bottle. I keep one of each handy. The spray's useful when you need to get to something that's hard to reach. I prefer the drip when I just want to get a single drop somewhere. |
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Steve Feldman
From:
Central MA USA
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Posted 27 Dec 2008 7:21 am
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Just FYI - Years ago, I used to use pure Teflon that was sold by DuPont to the bike industry. Best lube ever - lasted forever. Completely dry. Didn't pick up dirt...nothing. Can't get it like that anymore.
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Bo Borland
From:
South Jersey -
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Posted 27 Dec 2008 7:32 am
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Steve, maybe using the DuPont stuff is what made half your head disappear. rim shot please
But seriously folks.
Don, The triflow works pretty well flushing out the gunk.
I'm not sure what lube Charlie puts in the changer of the Derby but it always bleeds up when I play even after 2 years. The tri flow keeps it clean.
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Roual Ranes
From:
Atlanta, Texas, USA
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Posted 27 Dec 2008 7:44 am
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SPORTSMEN DO NOT WANT THEIR EQUIPMENT ATTRACTING DUST.
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Billy Carr
From:
Seminary, Mississippi, USA (deceased)
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Posted 27 Dec 2008 10:31 am lubes
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| I'm currently using Remington gun oil with teflon. Just wondering, how does it compare with Triflow? |
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Jim Sliff
From:
Lawndale California, USA
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Posted 27 Dec 2008 11:59 am
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The gun oil leaves more oil, which will pick up dirt, gumming the works. You'll eventually need to flush everything out with solvent.
A good alternative to Tri Flow is Pedro's Extra Dry, also available at bike shops.
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