It's Deja Vu all over again. Just the other day I (with an apology) asked if the OP with a similar issue had remembered to use the stem expander bolt to drive the wedge free. It was a crap shoot guess intended to eliminate an unlikely omission before he went to destructive lengths to free his stem.
It turned out I nailed it, so the same question --- is the wedge out?
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