Help correcting a school boy error...

[CoggesRailway]

I have a bunch of painted/weathered bighauler stock painted with plasticote and acyrlic paints.

Subsequent to weathering I decided to resolve some annoying squeaks by dropping some engine oil on each axle end- run smooth as silk now.

However it is obviously spraying up onto the underside in motion and the leeching up the sides leaving greasy water marks. I could live with this as just prototype muck and grease, but the trouble is they all have 1:1 finger prints on all the time Arggggghh

How can I fix this without disolving the paint? Dishwasher?! Sink and fairy liquid? A chemical of somekind...?
I cleaned them(ish) with wet wipes for my open day, but after one running session they are the same again. Obviously need to get the oil out of the axle ends somehow.

Thanks in advance

PS It's one of many schoolboy errors but this one just spoilt a relaxing bit of trainwatching!

 

[bobg]

Hmmm! Nothing wrong with using engine oil, just try a little less next time. I use the end of a very small screwdriver (clockmaker type) to place a drop of oil exactly where required. Getting it off without destroying the paint job is maybe a bit more tricky, it is notoriously 'spready'. A little detergent in water might be the easiest but soak and wipe gently, rather than scrub, and it might need it more than once.

 

[CoggesRailway]

Thanks guys, Nodrog yes u might be right but on a long rake of wagons that is gonna take for ever. A sample gondola has just survived the dishwasher and is very clean, but paint intact..... I may have a solution.

 

[mmts]

Thanks guys, Nodrog yes u might be right but on a long rake of wagons that is gonna take for ever. A sample gondola has just survived the dishwasher and is very clean, but paint intact..... I may have a solution.

I take that SWMBO is out then???

 

[CoggesRailway]

Thanks guys, Nodrog yes u might be right but on a long rake of wagons that is gonna take for ever. A sample gondola has just survived the dishwasher and is very clean, but paint intact..... I may have a solution.

I take that SWMBO is out then???

How did you know that!?!