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Unread 12-06-2004, 08:02 PM   #6
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Status Report -- Semi-Success

Tried most of the suggestions:

- Several days of penetrating oil, from both inside & outside
- Short, fat-handled screwdriver with wide, well-fitting blade
- Backed up on folded towel
- Lots of vertical pressure while trying to turn by hand - no wrench

Didn't budge!

- Put frame in freezer
- When cold, blew hot air from hair dryer with slotted diffuser up the magazine well
- Repeated above

Left grip screw backed out! Right still stuck.

- Repeated freezer/hair dryer trick with no further success.

Looking for a better penetrating oil and hoping my wife won't make me take my mess out of the guest bathroom until I'm finished.
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