I am surprised your consultants didn't tell you about measuring the mc and leaving the cord out? It is part of my spiel lol
I just back-tracked through this thread and the discussion of lids not locking into place reminded me of my emergency last week. I put my lid on, turned it to lock it in position and it bounced out again. I did that a couple of times and eventually it locked into place - I was starting to panic, but persevered.I turned TMX on and it started leaking everywhere out of the lid. By this time I was just about in a fully fledged panic. I took the lid off and found where I had gone wrong - I hadn't put the rubber ring in place! WHAT A RELIEF. I was lucky, nothing wa so wrong that it wasn't immediately attended to and, fortunately, not a lot of mess to clean up.