RustyOldNail
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I've only had my Cricket for a couple of days, and I have LOTS of thoughts, but I'm working all weekend and too busy to comment much yet. The cap is too loose but not terrible. The airflow needed to be fixed (too open). The cap on/off sensor gets confused occasionally.
I did discover this great way to clean the chimney glass...
Oral -B Superfloss. The link takes you to Amazon where you can get a pack of 50 of the non-mint flavored flosses for $5.
It works perfectly unless you've managed to completely clog up the glass tube. It will probably work then as well, it will just take a couple of them with fresh iso dunks (of the floss, not the mouthpiece). The floss is three parts. One end is hard plastic that's springy and maybe 36 gauge. The middle part of the floss is this circular mesh that gets thicker and thinner as you loosen and tighten your grip on the ends of the floss. The other end is just regular floss material.
You don't have to remove the chimney or glass from the cap. Just thread the springy end through the glass tube and hold both ends of the piece of floss and pull the circular mesh part back and forth in the glass tube. I soak the mesh in 99% Iso and it's fine (haven't tried ethanol so I don't know if the mesh material is OK with it). Scrubs the inside and makes the glass chimney sparkle like new.
Finally got to test this GREAT suggestion. I had the OralB SuperFloss from years ago.
I’ve been managing to keep the GLASS chimney clean by not over loading and minimum draw strength. I could see some resin buildup now, so tied one end of the long floss string to a fixed object. Then held tight, dragged my ethanol container along the string, soaking the entire length. Push the plastic tip end through the chimney left inside the top cap. One end held by fixed object, the other end in my hand, dragged the cap back and forth. Chimney CLEAN! Doesn’t take as long as it did to write this. Biggest benefit…. less handling of the fragile glass chimney……
EXCELLENT SOLUTION @Haywood