I guess I wasn't making myself clear. I know how to take off the clip, done it many times as I attempted to find different ways to attach the tuner to my bass ukes, but, I received the soundhole tuner today and discovered that it works in a special way on my custom made Telecaster style bass.
I designed and had that bass made by Bruce Herron of Blue Star Guitar in Michigan (who makes the Konablaster). As I was working on the design, I found a tuner out of China made to insert in the side of an acoustic instrument much like the preamp/tuners. I assumed that would work inserted in the side of a my solid body bass, so I sent it to Bruce and he fit it in the Tele mini bass. Of course it didn't work, not even the slightest move on the readout. Bummer! I removed it, which left a gapping hole in the side of my bass.
At the 2105 NAMM show I saw a new headstock tuner D'Addario was showing the flipped up to turn on and rotated. I bought three and use them on the headstock of my basses, but one I removed the clip, drilled through it and attached it to the pickguard of the Tele. Worked for a while, but in drilling, I nicked the circuitboard and soon it died.
On a whim, I clipped one of the others in the empty hole of the Tele and it worked, though it sticks out obtrusively.
But looking at the new soundhole tuner, I thought I would at least try it in the gapping hole on the Tele. I unscrewed and removed the metal clip and hey, it works, except is has a tough time with the low E string, but gets there. So I'm going to reshape the hole to fit the the new tuner and even cut a slot for the clip flange, and hopefully that will help it tune the E better. If it works, I'm might just insert one in each of my solid body basses.