Stick with either extra clips themselves stuck in with handles mounted and as a possible concept the bent angle perhaps
ground out. A bunch of 1" putty knives, or in general some say 22ga-18ga steel
shim stock to insert between the bent clip and the glass
reflector. Have not had to do it in a while, but I might try a mini pry bar to spread and insert little pieces of steel once the spring clips per side are spread. Might put some
gaff tape on the mini-pry bar so as not to damage the glass.
Even with these
reflector retaining handles built, -sometimes two, sometimes three work, but four is the goal in popping it just right... but at times it works with a fall out of everything, and other times it doesn't work with stuff falling out. Or flinging out which is the conern about using blades. Sharp or even dull razor blades would be bad to be flinging about in a
reflector popping out situation even if locally successful.
Darned spring at the bottom screws stuff up. At one
point I was making a
jig so as to pop the
reflector accuracy with an
arbor press, but that never went far enough in too rare the extraction to put further effort into it. I would think the actual "popping" out of the
reflector is the most important part of this removal process. Have to soundly get that
reflector out of the tension clips ramped out to remove it. If off too much to any one side in hitting or pushing it out... you fail. Were there a way to remove the spring spacer at the bottom of the
reflector this whole process would be easier.
Never found an easy way other than luck. Glad I don't have to extract many reflectors.
