It's not so bad if you're watching tv, or listening to music. What sucks is knowing that you can't get to the pivot area with any efficiency without snipping the pins. Re-pinning is too big a project for me now anyway.

Next time I'm wearing gloves and not polishing in my bedroom. It took a while to get the metal shavings, steel wool fibers polish off my pruny hands and to
Get the smell of polish out of my room so I can sleep.

I've got a dremel and a cloth wheel, but I have no idea what it does, and am reluctant to find out.