jkelley

I didn't see in the DIY where it mentioned using shaving creme a a great way to catch the shavings and suck them out really easily. May want to add that, but I'm not really a great mechanic so before you do, maybe check with someone else like jordan or billman - but I think I remember billman saying he uses shaving creme for his process.

sbman

I didn't use shaving cream, the grease caught most of it and a bit of wiping with a clean rag-on-a-stick got the rest of it really easily. I didn't want to put any water based stuff down the cylinder hole. I used my magnetic pickup tool as the stick to zip tie a rag onto and the lip of the magnet made sure it could not fall off into the cylinder.

I would have had to rig up something to get a vacuum down into that hole too, wasn't equipped for that.

<EDIT> I just read the shaving cream post and the recommend is to push it out by rotating the crank, I'm sure that would work. I was happy with wiping it up, but I'm sure the shaving cream would work fine and probably be a bit faster.