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Agree with all.

You can also beg an old currette or two from your dentist or hyguenist. Still will be plenty good enough to scrape loctal pins and the tools also "goes around corners" to get the inside edges. If the sockets are nasty too, deoxit and plunger like stabs with a thin toothpick usually helps a lot. Remember to bend toward the nipple on the base of loctals to remove them from sockets without harm.