Originally Posted by
cxwrench
You're quite the over-thinker aren't you? Just clean it as well as you can and move on. It's never going to stay perfect for more than a couple rides so it's just not worth worrying about.
I'm going to try out different grease which is not based on hydrocarbons, so it has to be cleaned a bit better this time, otherwise the advantage of heightened surface wetting ability of PFPE greases such as Krytox GPL205 might not be used fully.