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| | | | Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 10,307 Renaissance Man | | Renaissance Man Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 10,307 | Those screws are hard, not prone to galling damage. It looks like an insignificant portion of it has either got chipped off, or is a manufacturing defect.
Since your lock nut runs smoothly on it, I would not hesitate to use it as is. That would be a better choice than replacing with an aftermarket one, or one from another engine which may not have as nice of a ball end as yours has.
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