In a message dated 2/26/04 7:18:28 PM, azsun99@EARTHLINK.NET writes:

<< If you are referring to the coat hanger knobs, use the tip of a sharp
knife or small

screwdriver around the edge of the convex center cap. >>

Barbara,

Using a sharp tool will work to remove the cap, but there is the attendant
risk of marring or even cutting into the knob.  Perhaps it would be better to
say to use a once sharp knife.  Whatever tool you chose to remove the cap, it
must be thin and its edges must be thoroughly blunted.  I keep two tools for
such work: one is a thin screwdriver and the other an old artists palette knife.
Both of these were run against a buffing wheel until I could feel no sharp
edges.

Knowing and loving the irrepressible nature of women as I do, I have to add
that YOU could probably accomplish the task with a bobby pin.

George