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Jerry

So I took it out. Not without pain.

First mistake I did was, when I severed the wires the panel would not be left alone and I fully overlooked the fact that the box has snap-in tabes so it had to be taken out of the base first. I made many photos of the wires from every angle and simply snapped the connectons off and took the whole block out, and only after that I saw the tabs
I guess what duped me was the fact that the tin can in 20 has no tabs. O in my mind I saw the picture that was not there.

OK, this is easy and I like soldering.

Then today I cleaned the vice I bought, very heavy, propbably 20 plus lbs pr so, put it in a cardboard box, screwed in the screw and started yanking it out relying on teh sheer weight of the vice. This worked to a degree - the whole block did not get out (I have dark-blue or gray paper and it did not seem like it was permeated by the tar but still......the part that came out was the middle cap.
Plus lots of tar shrapnel.
then I simply pried every section with a screwdriver and took them out quite easily with my fingers.
After that the paper lining just came out.

Except for a lot of the tar pieces around (most in the box so not too bad) and half of them stuck to the vice due to the lubrication, all went not bad at all.
I wiped the wice, wiped my shoes' soles and then vacuumed the floor, put the box in a garbage bag....that was it.

I have decided I had enough for today and will start the recapping of the box during the week.