On Mon, 28 Nov 2016 08:31:33 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:

If you want to dry it good. Hive it a good shot of brake-clean or better yet, starting fluid ( eather) then let it sit. It'll be dry as a desert bone in moments. Then use light gun oil on reassembly.

The mineral spirits and machine oil thing cuts out most of this drama.
The solvent does a good job of cleaning things and the oil remains
after you wipe or evaporate off the spirits.
In an ultrasonic cleaner you just start it up and go get a cup of
coffee.
IBM used to have a couple of big sprayer type cleaners at 1801 K to
clean typewriters and that was the mix they used (mineral spirits and
IBM #6 oil) ... until the fire marshal found out. I ended up with one
of them after that. You could get a whole VW or Harley engine in one.
Run it about an hour and they came out looking brand new.
They did smoke a might after you put them back together, indicating
how much oil did penetrate the pores of the metal.