I removed an adapter the other day and would like a better outcome. I used my heat gun on its highest setting for several minutes without the epoxy melting. I was concerned about the heat damaging the tip so I used a torch to get it to break loose quicker. It took several minutes with the torch to break the epoxy loose and I started getting nervous about overheating the graphite. I am only going to remove a handful of these a year so I will wait for the heat gun to work if that is the safest method. I can also get some map gas for my torch if the hotter flame will work better. The black anodizing of the tip turned a pretty cool looking bronze color but I would prefer to keep the black color intact.