What's an RLET?

[Cormanus]

See my answer in the link below. Some of the Alpha’s laughed at the use of a very expensive set of needle-nose pliers when I published this “How-To.”  I accepted the mocking and teasing gracefully because I retained my fingernails and the skin on all my fingers!

Installing RLETs

They are worth the trouble, Cormanus. It sets off your beautiful, well-traveled CB1100.  David

I'd forgotten your technique, rdprdp01. I have a vague recollection of someone using a sheep castrator, but I couldn't lay hands on one.

Respectfully, my question is no so much about whether there was something lacking in my technique. You can take that as given. It's more whether there is something in the mysterious force surrounding RLETs that means, once installed, they shouldn't be changed. I broke a clutch lever once and just swapped the RLET on to the new one. I remember it being incredibly easy. So why so hard this time?