...while I went ahead to cut off the protruding bit of the late gear. Note that using a saw would have made it very easy, BUT this would have cut off too much material! So I could not use a saw and I used a cutter knife (in a metal guide - import due to the heat), and heated it up again and again with a heat gun before I painfully pressed the bigger part of the late gear with my thumb onto a soft kitchen-rag while cutting the protruding bit off...