Please help with filter adapter for G1X

I don't have rubber drawer liners, so I tried flat rubber gripping pads and they do not work.  I think what I need is a pair of small pipe wrenches.

But after repeated efforts to separate them, I think the filter adapter and my Hoya 58 mm polarizing filter may have fused at the intersection of the threads and will be forever together.

So if I want to use another filter, I will have to buy another filter adapter.

Another case of engineers feeling they are too brilliant to have to listen to consumers? After all, how many consumers can do differential equations?

A separate issue for me is that i like very much the JCCC auto lens cap, it saves me taking the lens cap on and off,  it's very convenient, but it is incompatible with the filter holder. If I really need to use a filter I would have to take it off and replace it with the original Canon cylinder and lens cap. So I will rarely use filters, I like to keep things simple so my photography can  be spontaneous and focused on what I am photographing, not on my equipment.

But I am still irritated that the filter and filter holder have fused together. Maybe I have cross-threaded it, or maybe the threads simply bond together too easily even when correctly threaded together..

Krugman