Pudding Dot Man At Gmail Dot Com writes:

DeoxIT might actually work to clean the mechanical parts, but that's not
what it's designed for (and it's pretty expensive). I'd clean the
mechanical parts with something like naphtha (lighter fluid), then
relubricate with grease after it had dried.

What kinda grease? Lithium grease (I got handy)?

White lithium grease is probably fine.

Dave