Don't try pushing the thin end off the fat end like I did and you should be fine. I wiped them out with paper towels and then used dawn dish soap. It actually worked fairly well. It didn't desolve everything in the creases of the springs but took care of pretty much everything else.

I was tired, it was very hot and I was not in any mood for anything caustic last night. I had cosmolineicon all over my hands, went to the kitchen sink, saw that sitting there and thought of how they use it to clean up oil spills and washed my hands with it and it worked. Old toothbrush. Rinsed them off, let them dry in the sun and then sprayed them with Rem oil. Probably slower than the caustic stuff but I wasn't in a rush.