I was tearing down my forks today and thinking of what you said earlier. My snap ring pliers didn't break the tips off but they also kept slipping out of the holes in the snap ring just as I was about to squeeze them in enough to lift them out.
I ended up finding a set of needle nose pliers with good teeth in them that I sacrificed and ground down enough to fit snug in the ring holes. Worked way quicker than the snap ring pliers. Those snap rings are a beeotch
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