your best best for crimping and removing the stem are round nose long pliers.
The radius must fit inside the stem flange! Don't try to use larger round nose, they won't work. I bought a small pair specifically for this.
/Mike
On Thu, 2019-08-29 at 06:20 +0000, domgoold@... [korgpolyex] wrote:
ok, so i found out how to get the black cage off - had to use fine penknife blade to unclip the side retainers.that went ok on this first one. but i'm going to have to watch that vid again, because i'm having no joy pinchingthe white button mechanism. not coming out at all :-( ... will report back on progress... do not want to screw this up, most of these work reasonably well, so i don't want to end up with worse than before !