Typical
All that typing for an Essex boy and then he thinks he will 'leave it'!
Lesson learnt.
Don't be down Mike, you gave some excellent advice, posting on here is for the benefit of not just the person you write for but for anyone else who reads it in the future.
Plus, if you re-read your own post, the op has actually followed your advice to the letter:
If they are welded on............you'd best forget it..........
The "Essex boy" dig though was rather rude and unnecessary and surely beneath a man of your intelligence