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Trying to help a friend fix his drift stick, however he forgot to mention to me when I started this project that he had hot glued one of the handles on, which makes it so I cannot access the inside of the controller, was wondering if there was a way of removing the handle without resorting to something drastic like cutting it off (I have extra handles). Any and all solutions welcomed!
Get the bottle of alcohol (91%+ isopropyl preferred) out to do this. Hot glue breaks down in the presence of alcohol, so what you can do to remove it is drip some on the side with it, let it creep in and then it should break with time.