Skip Leuchtturm, grab a Rhodia.

Yikes, and here I am still thinking Detroit Rd was the main event every year. Shows how much I know, I've never even handed out candy on that street, I just assumed it was packed with kids every October. Meanwhile I'm over here getting zero trick or treaters and eating the whole bag of Reese's by myself like a sad king. Maybe the kids all moved to some cul de sac I've never heard of and nobody told me. That lady probably knows more about my own neighborhood than I do.

Did you run it hot enough and for how long? I found out the hard way that most of those cheap units don't hold temp well, so the degreaser never gets activated the way it should. The fix for me was pre soaking the chain in a jar of solvent and then floating that jar in the water bath, so the chain gets hit with clean solvent instead of its own dirty runoff. Kind of turns the whole thing into a double boiler setup, which is dumb for a machine that's supposed to save time, but it actually worked on the gunk mine was missing. At that point I'm basically paying $350 for a heated jar though, so I feel your pain on the extra steps.