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  • Quick Tip: Door card trim clip removal

    Whenever I take a Maestro door card off, it seems inevitable that one or more of those little white trim clips will stay in the door and not come off with the card. Previously I've found it really difficult to remove these, but today I noticed something:

    Each of these little white chaps has a number moulded in the top of him! Look very carefully as it's very small, but it is there. If you imagine a horizontal line striking out this number and going through the centre of the top of the white chap, thus bisecting the him into two semi-circules, that tells you where his weakness is! Get a pair of needle-nose pliers and grip him so that the points that the pliers grip are on this imaginary line and just rock gently from side to side while pulling.

    As if by magic, he will ping out and not shatter into several non-reuseable pieces.

    You probably already knew this anyway, however.

    PS a diagram would have been worth a thousand words
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  • #2
    Well if you manage to draw a pic and post it up then I'll pop this into the FAQ

    You learn something new every day!
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    • #3
      They say that a diagram says a thousand words but they conveniently forget how long it can take to draw one.

      Still, by using the back of one of MaestroMatt's letters, I bring you:
      NB, this is how it looks when viewed perpendicular to the door surface.
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      • #4
        So in that pic we rock it which way, left and right or up and down?

        (sorry my brain isn't functioning tonight)
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        • #5
          Good point: Rock left and right!

          You only have to do it once either way and it'll pop out.
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          Owner of E760 DRY - Mk. 2 Shantung Gold Maestro Vanden Plas 2.0 EFi

          If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done. - Sir Peter Ustinov.

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          • #6
            Many thanks, I'll no pop it in the FAQ.
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