I got a new joinery plane off back order from Veritas today. I am ecstatic to have it in the shop and am not going to ask for a different one. It is a skew rabbet plane.
A bit cold here today, the delivery person left it on my front porch as requested. When I got home I took it out of the box, let the metal come up to ambient, wiped it down with a dry cloth and then slathered it up with jojoba oil for proactive rust prevention. Plan is to put it back in the OEM box until I can make a working stand for it, which could be Feb 2022, but well oiled.
I am ready to put it back together, except there is some crud down in the hole for the screw that holds the knicker on. I don't think it is a metal shaving. It seems sort of cardboard or pasty something, kinda grey/white in color. The screw came out just fine, and measures nominal 3mm diameter. The screw was fully seated with the knicker in good position when I took it apart. So I need to get some crud out of a hole maybe 2mm diameter, preferably without pushing the crud to the bottom of the hole.
I have some canned air for computer keyboards, but the extension tube for the spray nozzle is far too wide to get past the crud to blow it up and out, I could only blow the crud back down into the hole with that.
I was thinking about spraying some WD40 or similar onto the nearby flat metal and then trying to fill the hole with WD40 using a toothpick to float that little rascal out. Sounds time consuming, and then I would be comitted. So asking for helpful advice first.
Thanks in advance.