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Some surprisingly Strange notions have been posted.
ALL chains are pressure lubed at the factory, the insides of the rollers get packed with whatever grease/lube that particular Chain maker uses. The Only difference between O ring and Non is that the O rings are used to seal the lube inside those rollers. This they do reasonably well. Stretch, on a new chain, at least the intial stretch, is from the lube being squeezed out from inside the roller and their pins. Without O rings to hold it in this happens much sooner on a non Oring equipped chain.. No News There.
So anything ! that either attacks or dilutes or otherwise degrades the lube in side the rollers is clearly Not Good. Damaging the O rings is not even close to being as important a consideration.. once the Roller Lube is Gone it's only a matter of time till Failure.
Soaking yer chain in solvents, bio-degradable or not only demonstrates a surprising ignorance of the chain's assembly/manufacture.
But some swear by it.. Go figure.