With all the wildfires out west I would say YES, that is a very bad idea. Could you imagine what would happen to you if you did start a fire with such a stunt? I don’t think it would be pretty and most certainly not worth it, unless you’d like to be making license plates for the State of Utah...
I wanted to locate the trailer brake controller in the recommended location for convenience, easy visibility, and for the plastic bezel to lock the switch in place and to keep it from possibly rotating.
I did not like that location however for how potentially vulnerable it would be so I put...
Unfortunately it’s not just the plates that are warped, to a degree the whole mounting faces of the snorkel where the plates attach are warped as well. Having nice flat plates out of any material won’t entirely fix this problem.
If you move the slotted plate to the rear side of the snorkel...
Not to hijack the thread but just another alternative here. You use the narrow and sharp Exacto blade as the OP suggested and then insert a small skinny pair of hemostats into the slit up to the hinge of the hemostats. This allows you to open the hemostat without fighting the rubber slit. You...