Firstly, some before pics:
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login(Ignore Dancing Butterflies back there, I was going to do her too but didn't have enough time, she'll have to wait!)
Her head glue was being a bit stubborn in some places as I was holding her under the hot water, to help with it I ended up using the sharp part of a safety pin to poke through bits of the glue, and eventually succeeded in removing the head:
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loginIt wasn't too much rust, the majority of it was around the washer itself, with just a little bit elsewhere (toward the bottom of the inside of her feet and inside her nose, I didn't have anything small enough to clean these places so I'll clean them out on a later date).
So, I took out the tail and began to clean.
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loginI used a soft children's toothbrush and some toothpaste (the specific kind was Colgate MaxFresh with whitening if anyone's curious) that I had just gotten in a small tube from the dentist a while back. It didn't take too much scrubbing to get the rust off, on both the tail itself and inside the body where the washer was.
Here's the tail with its new, rubber washer:
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loginI then of course had to take the rubber washer back off to put the tail back into the body. I just inserted the clamp with the tail in through the outside of the tail hole, then from the inside put the clamp through the hole of the washer. This rubber washer's a lot thicker than the original metal one was.
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After pictures!
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