I had previously felt the washer was a line online fit and it rested below the channel that the c-clip is in. I had falsely assumed that was the diameter of the pin.
Turns out that there is a tiny ledge just below the c-clip channel, I crushed that with the pliers trying to loosen the pin enough to beat it out.
It is all FAR smaller than I can see with my eyes + glasses. Even with 8x Zoom it looks blurry to me. I can feel it with the exacto knife tho*
Ok, no big deal. We will be patient and pic pic pic pic pic pic pick at it until the washer lands. Unfortunately it was already perfectly line online so……….. If this were game day I would open up that washer a tiny bit, but let’s try.
-Schindler