Take a pair of cheap needlenose pliers, you can pick one up sometimes at the Dollar Store or Walmart. Open up the jaws, clamp into a metal vise, heat one jaw up at a time with a propane torch just enough to bend the jaw slightly with vise grips inward towards the other jaw (10-15 degrees) should be fine, then do the same to the other jaw. Remove from vise with a pair of channel locks or pliers, drop needlenose pliers into bucket of cold water to cool and set up the metal. Give a minute or 2, remove from bucket and dry. That's what I did so I could unclip and remove the male part from the female part. My arthritis is bad enough that I don't have the strength to make the clip release with my hands, the pliers works great.
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