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Old 10-12-2013, 09:46 AM
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Originally Posted by FWB View Post
he may like the use of dental floss.....but the perplexing part is the straw and the batteries.
I trimmed the straw to pass around the screw that extrudes from the back of the housing so that the three pieces of floss, which are looped around the top of the spring in 120 degree increments, pass inside the straw, along the screw, and are constricted at the top by the straw so that there is a nice, even "draw down" of the spring. I then wrapped the floss several times around the base of the screw, where it exits from the straw, and put a little blue tape to hold it. The batteries are for a small flashlight, off camera. You couldn't figure that out?

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