Thanks for the replies..... I'm going to go ahead and split the cases, then turn the top case upside down and lock the stud in a vise really good and see if I can spin the top half case off the stud, being theres just one stud left it might work?.....If it doesn't work, I'm just going to get another set of cases.....I'm sure the torch method would work, but the way the weeks starting I'm liable to burn down the house. So I'm going to plan on buying cases and then if I have to I won't be surprised.