Hey hey friends.
Faithful TM down on this sad eve. Hoping y’all can help. Was mid-use after a clean — standard set up — and noticed the cooling unit was sliding around loose in the glass pipe. (Time to change rubber bands)
But because I still had material in the tube, I used a a pencil’s eraser end to press the CU back down into the tube. Well, I musta pressed too firmly, because suddenly the CU depressed further than usual, and immediately the material inside started smoking and sparking. Yikes!!
Took the tube out, and yep: things looked different inside. I assumed I musta pressed a screen down where it shouldn’t have gone?But when I took it apart — more carefully than ever — I didn’t really find any missing screen.
When I completely remove the bits from the glass-tube chamber, I can see a metal mesh screen of sorts directly over the cooling unit. But it’s not an easily removable piece. Or a familiar one.
So I reassembled, but something isn’t right. It’s sorta working, but it keeps combusting. Material is clearly falling onto that last hot mesh bit and catching fire. Almost like I’m missing a screen or something?
Last, I could have sworn that in normal circumstances when I would peer down into the empty glass tube chamber, I would see a white (plastic?) square of sorts, sticking out from a screen or something? Apologies, my TM has been trouble free for ages, so I haven’t looked down there in a while. I could just be confusing pics I’ve seen of the bare heater.
Any ideas? I probably just don’t have it assembled right?
Thanks so much to alllllllll.