I concur with Darrel's method. Plastic or wood wedge, such as a popsicle stick works well. Steve Dodder Chairman, SAC Novice Group Coordinator, Grand Canyon Star Party, North Rim Director, Stone Haven Observatory fester00@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.stonehavenobservatory.com > From: DSpencer@xxxxxxx > To: sac-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [sac-forum] Re: Removing a Stubborn C11 Corrector Plate > Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 16:15:43 +0000 > > I'm a day late and a dollar short - but if you're still struggling on the > corrector plate, I had to resort to inserting a plastic wedge around the > periphery and a couple of taps. A little unnerving, but done gently it freed > mine right up. And it was really stuck. > > Darrell > > -----Original Message----- > From: sac-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:sac-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of Tom Polakis > Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2015 2:44 PM > To: sac-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [sac-forum] Removing a Stubborn C11 Corrector Plate > > I need to remove the corrector plate on my C-11 before I try to sell it. > After removing the retaining ring, it did not want to budge. Has anybody > else had this problem, and if so, found a solution? If not, I'll see what we > can do at Paul's ATM meeting this Tuesday. Thanks. > > Tom > > > This communication, including any attachments, may contain information that > is proprietary, privileged, confidential or legally exempt from disclosure. > If you are not a named addressee, you are hereby notified that you are not > authorized to read, print, retain a copy of or disseminate any portion of > this communication without the consent of the sender and that doing so may be > unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please > immediately notify the sender via return e-mail and delete it from your > system. In order to safeguard its employee data as well as sensitive patient, > customer, business, legal and other information, the company uses all lawful > means, under all applicable law, to access, monitor, preserve, collect and > review all communications between employees and all other users only when, > and to the extent necessary, to fulfill investigatory and other important > business and legal responsibilities. By responding to this communication, or > initiating additional communication with the company, you consent to such > lawful monitoring, to the extent such consent is required and valid in your > local area.