| I currently have over 400 of my new ASMs oiled. I usually oil a few stacks of 20, fairly liberally with the oil, making sure to get oil into the horseheads and cracks. Then I take the first stack that I oiled and dry around the perimeter of the whole stack, then I take each chip and press it between the paper towel to soak off oil. After I do this with all the stacks I let them sit overnight (on the table, not in the racks). The next day, a little oil is pooled around the edges in between chips, so I lay them out on paper towels for 24 hours. Then I flip them over onto more paper towels for another 24. You have to use new paper towels because they get oily. Then they are done and put in racks. For drying them I use exactly one paper towel per stack. And when laying them out, 36 chips fit on each paper towel. The whole process takes me under a minute per chip, but its definitely above 30 seconds a chip. Depending on what I am watching on tv as I work, sometimes it seems like I go really slow. But, I make my wife help me so its not so bad, although she works about half the speed that I do because her fingers get sore.
I should go lay out the 130 my wife and I oiled up last night.
I think it will all be worth it when its done. But my advice would be to just do a little at a time. Trying to do more than a couple hundred in a day would really suck.  | 
