Dee's
The more you pull it down and clean it the faster it corrodes!
I've covered this over the years like a broken record.
Why open up a new clean fresh metal face for palm juice? Let the old dry caked on crap be the barrier, as long as that oil pump worm drive spins and the brake band works stay the f-*! out of there.
On weekly strips we were doing an oil pump every 4 to 6 weeks. Now it's at the 2months plus but lately as long as 4 months as I clean them in there even less, just get what I can with small screw driver to clear the worm drive. No Inox, no water, no nothing just compressed air to clear out the scrapings.
Just like trees dont need paint. LOL