The sideswiped lady lived but he broke her windshield and ruined both driverside doors on both cars.
I Put the freewheels in the utrasonic tank under stoddard solvents for 3 min. Then filled her up with Vactra 4. Now its dreamy. Exxon-Mobil makes all sorts of Petroleum products not just car oil...in fact I'd bet some, if not most, "Bicycle" oils are rebadged&rebranded industrial lubricants marked up to be sold in smaller containers....Car oil...hmphh!

I prefer to use WD40 for cleaning out old lubricants because it doesn't leave the metals totally dry like true solvents (MEK, Lacquer thinner, etc.) it's not ideal but if not for cleaning I see no real use for WD40

For the uninformed; Vactra 2 and 4 are machine way oils. Way bars are the precision ground bars on which machine tools move their tables/spindles They are one of the most important parts of a machine tool!!! see below for a cutaway of a way bar and its saddle.
If these weren't protected from water based emulsion coolants or well lubricated your your parts come out schleckt and the machine would be, for all intensive purposes, Garbage.

If you don't yet own a quart or 5gal of way oil BUY SOME!!! given it's not for everything (Vactra 4 has very limited uses because it's SOOO sticky) you'll love it.
Greases usually are packed to keep water off the bearing surfaces or where an oil bath wouldn't hold ( High pressure areas,overheads&strange casting pockets as well as outdoor or open bath areas) and lubricates only after the part(s) in question have heated sufficiently to to melt a portion of the grease into a heavy oil.

CC700, your right but the shimano wheels!, rode a white ind. freewheel and it was much smoother, maybe less paws? dunno. But the Shimano is creamy smooth now so no need to change it out.

I'd never encountered a non-trials freewheel this stiff before, didn't know if it was the status quo for single speeds?
Thanks for what little useful input there was...I really appreciate you guys Not jumping to conclusions and assuming I was a Total jackoff (that's right ddeadserious I'm looking at you)