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Old 2016-02-09, 6:31am
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Sometimes you can get stuck beads loose using a pop rivet gun.
You can stick the mandrel through something like a fat rubber band or one of those grippy pads for loosening stuck jar lids and use that as a cushion while the rivet gun slowly pulls on the mandrel to get the bead loose.

I think there is a freezer trick too where 2 hours in the ice box gets the metal to shrink as much as its going to.

But if you have solid metal to molten glass contact the odds are that the bead will break,

I remember using teeny tiny drill bits with a Dremel tool in a pan of water to slowly put a hole in some of my fused glass pendants a decade back. Lots of patience is needed though or you wind up breaking bits or the work itself.
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