Installing new pipe cleaners on oil cups?

[Supergleep]

Ok, I've been going at this for a couple hours now and I'm stumped. How do you fish a new pipe cleaner through the 90 degree bend in the oil cup?

 

[MyLilMule]

Push a piece of nylon string through it first, then tie it to the wick, making use it's also ties at the very end. Pull it through.

FWIW, I find that modern pipe cleaners don't wick oil very well at all, and felt is a much better material.

 

[Supergleep]

Thank you MLM. I'll have to try it your way on the next one...
Posting this for the next newbie to find so they can avoid my mistake.
Threw it in the vice to see if the long part would unscrew. It doesn't.
Broke the brazed joints. Ah well. In the market for a new oil cup, lol.

 

[markba633csi]

Just soak them in solvent-- next time

 

[Weldingrod1]

Clean it and solder it back up...

+1 on the felt and string

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