Bird watt meter element repair

[Mudfoot]

 

[999]

I watched another video on element repair recently and the drilling is not necessary. The dimple is just there to orient the cover with the body so that the directional arrow lines up correctly.
What they did in the other video was to soak the element face down in goo gone for a couple of hours to release the glue and the cover came right off.

 

[Mudfoot]

In the comments, he said he tried that, but still had to drill.