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Often referred to as thrust washers...

It’s not as simple as it seems. That’s exactly how I got into making scales. We have all broken scales, at least those of us who have unpinned scales have.

Blades are difficult to take pictures of. It actually looks pretty good. I would say it’s worth sending out.

It’s likely that your best approach is not always the easiest. It looks like you should take the scales off, scrape it with a single edge razor blade, then give it a good scrubbing with 0000 steel...