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Before you go and round up some specialty tools and so forth, put a couple of M10 x 1.5 nuts(double- nut them, which means tighten them against each other) on a stud and check how tight the stud(s) currently are. Just put a normal wrench on the lower nut and apply a bit of effort to see how tight they are.

Reason I say that is because you might find your studs are looser than you think. For instance my recent teardown on my "3.0" revealed all 24 studs are dilivar (and now are souvenirs) that all came out w/out a fight at all. No threadlocker was used and no heat needed. All I found on the base threads was some seriously stinky paste.

Not saying my instance is necessarily commonplace. I would consider my instance rare. Just saying that it's worth a bit of investigating before assuming you need the tried and true stud remover and heat method.
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