Removing Window winder handles.

[Cuppa]

If I post this here it may help me to recall how to do it next time, & if that fails I can hopefully find my post here to remind me!

In my electronic manual I could only find reference to removing the door skin for electric window models, nothing about manual winder handle removal.

I've done it before, & even made & carry a little hook tool to assist, but do you think I could remember just how the tool was used! Oh no sirree! Not for quite a while anyway.

Pushing the door skin in whilst pulling the winder handle out will create a small gap .... 2 or 3mm. With a hook made from thin but stiff wire it is possible to push the hook down into the gap to then pull the sprung clip holding the winder handle onto the shaft upward, releasing the handle.

And whilst I'm here ...... the little orange plastic 'plugs' on the back of the door skin, which push into hole in the door to hold the door skin in place - has anyone come up with a fix for when the damn things pull out of the hardboard/masonite of the door skin, tearing it?