Did you not have stuff like Duckhams Chain Guard in the states? It was a round tin, similar to a cake tin but shallower that was filled with a solid grease, grey like MolyD, you put it on the stove and let it melt, then put the chain in there for a while, you then took it off the heat and removed the chain, hanging it over the tin so the excess grease dripped back in. The tin had a folding handle, made of really thin tin, where the handle met the tin it had 2 small holes which you inserted nails into to lock the handle into place, when taking it off the kitchen stove one day the nails fell out and the tin just pivoted on the handle and split the grease all over the kitchen floor, it almost instantly set. Luckily my mother was out (I was living at home at the time), I scraped up what I could and then used gunk (a UK degreaser) to dissolve the rest so I could wipe it up, gunk smells really strongly, as does the chainguard, so I heated up the oven as hot as it would go and that started that smoking, which covered the smell of the gunk, when I mum came home I was cleaning the oven on my hands and knees, bit smoky I said. She was really pleased I'd done a nasty job for her, made my favourite tea as a reward. Sometimes being sneaky can be good.
