Thank you Oldbeck for being so specific with naming a good option.

Back in my younger farming days had a older gentleman that had spent his life as head mechanic for a construction company with a lime quarry near my place working on a D6 final drives. Had gasket glue holding things together. He grabbed a cheap plastic handled screwdriver and started hammering it into the gasket. Just a little all the way around with extra effort where the dowel pins where. Of coarse the plastic was gone when done,but as the gasket came lose he commented "best screwdriver I wrecked in a long time".



Was not many weeks latter fencing crew taking out fence.One funky had a nice wood handled screwdriver prying staples. Broke the handle very quickly and pitched it out in the field. I went and picked up the pieces,yes a USA made square shank 6 inch flat blade. After grinding the blade down to very sharp,has been my go to tool for tapping into gaskets to start the separation of parts. Yes tapping you cannot get in a hurry with this work unless you like buying casting. But a good piece of steel lasts longer than one job.

Sharpen a putty knife or the end of a wide file works good too.

Hive tools being spring steel can be used as pry bars. Where they curve on the butt end is a comfortable place to push when scrapping gaskets. That area can be struck with a hammer with out damage also. That end curves down to be a great scrapper. This tool was designed to pry things apart and scrape beeswax with. If you ever have one, you will never be without it. Google it. Pics on Amazon.

Never thought about a hive tool. My wife has a couple of them, but whenever I touch her bee stuff I get yelled at.