Tips/Tricks for removing bypass damper? F3500

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ShaneMac

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Sep 28, 2021
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Ontario
Getting my new to me wood stove ready for the season and trying to do some preventative maintenance on it. Picking up some nickle anti-seize and putting it on the interior screws. They are not hand tight and want looking for ideas before I end up breaking them. May be best to leave it be? Risk it now and prevent further chance of breaking in future? Is it worth even adding anti-seize to the smoke deflector and catalyst shield?

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First thought is to hit it up with the torch and a small impact gun. Impacts tend to break things free with out breaking etc compared to over torquing.
 
How did this work out?