yes, yes and maybe. They are hardened. You can clean them up and you may go through the hardening. You may find you need to grind them as they are a similar hardness to the cutting tool. You can buy new ones or touch them up with something like stellite which is really hard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellite
luck,
kkk
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