On Sat, 21 May 2011 19:11:40 -0400, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote:

Try snap open the top and use large slotted screw driver.

That's what I do, and I use my fingers for the nut.

That's on my own toilet seat. If it were someone else's, I make him
or her use his own fingers.

Not that the nut itself is dirty, but your hand could conceivably get
dirty.