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I make myself a little tool out of an allen key. I just file a little chisel point on the biggest key that fits in that little groove above the clip.
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Then you slide it in the grove and use it to lever up the flange on the clip. *PING*! This saves you from digging gouges in the window. Super handy when your doing a tonne.

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If they were sliding, grab them with your side cutter and give it a bend.

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I usually use my other hand to give it a little kink. Hard with a camera. Now you can put it back in and it won't slide!

Some times I want to put turnbuckles in a windshield. Sometimes I'm to chicken to drill into the windshield for fear of breaking the glass (hey, I only did it once), or it's nice to be able to skooch turnbuckles a little to the left.

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squish off the snap on two windshieldclips.

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put a male stud back in the hole where the snap attached

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with the male/stud die in the top and the female/socket in the plunger set it. Repeat.

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Finished turnbuckle on windshield clips.

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On the boat.

Great idea...

Peppy,

Nice little tricks!   Thanks for sharing. :D

Nice! awesome little trick there!

Looks great on the boat as well  :D  Nice idea.