by Wm.Traynor » 06 Oct 2021, 3:32 pm
I use a piece of fencing wire. The old fashioned kind, not the high tensile stuff. Take about 18" and put a 90* bend in one end, no more than 1/2 inch long. Buy some El Cheapo, "Swisspers", in the Baby Section of your supermarket. Lop the buds off a Swiwwper. Notice, it's hollow. Grind a point on the short end of your wire and slide/shove the bud on. Make a loop for your hand to hold at the other end and poke the bud down through the action, into the "ante chamber", as Jim Sweet used to say. That is between the locking lug abutments and the face/beginning of the chamber. Position the full length of the bud against one of those abutment lumps and use the loop to swivel the wire, so that the bud rubs against the lump.