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Taking apart an Excel

Posted by Yehuda Manne on Thursday, 12-Jul-2007
I'm wondering how I can get farther inside my Excel, beyond
removing the baseplate. My spoon has come loose from
the plastic rod that drives it back and forth, it flops around
inside the tobacco chamber, not totally preventing making
smokes but making things more difficult and sloppy. I'm thinking
a little squeeze with a needlenose ought to fix it.
I see several tiny white plastic tabs poking up through the
body of the machine but don't want to mess with them
until advised by someone with more experience.

Thanks!

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Re: Taking apart an Excel
Posted by Dave L on Friday, 13-Jul-2007

RYO Magazine covered Excel take-down in their last injectors issue [link] (a little over halfway down)... It looks like spoon removal isn't covered. To remove the spoon, remove the "screw" (contrary to what he says, reassembly is not a big deal) and the plastic stop (slightly NW of the screw) which snaps in/out.

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Re: Taking apart an Excel
Posted by David Brown on Friday, 13-Jul-2007

The only thinng I can say on reassembly is the little pyramid shaped spacer (I relate it to an aztec style pyramid ) needs to go in sideways. It will fit ether way but if you put it in wrong you will get a clicking noise when the handle is pulled.

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Re: Taking apart an Excel
Posted by Dave L on Friday, 13-Jul-2007

Mate steps to steps (pyramid) [link] and have the spoon elbow pointing to towards the nozzle [link]

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Re: Taking apart an Excel
Posted by yehuda manne on Monday, 16-Jul-2007

thanks for the tips. I just got a s'pmatic, so the Excel goes
on the back bench for travel, etc.

I love this forum, it's been really helpful to me
in the last couple of months since I returned to MYO.

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