Springs on xl egg

Tikaanikaeda81

Anyone ever fired it up and had the spring somehow dislodge itself from the hing and the connection so the egg opens? I was planning on cooking tonight, I can still raise enough to get in there, but how does one fix it? I'm at about 450 so manipulating it without burning the hands is difficult, but just let it cool down once the egg is cooled try to reconnect? Loosen the bands and try? Just seems odd that it just popped off. Thoughts, experiences, suggestions?

Tikaanikaeda81

Update. Got the spring on but it's a pain to open, only wants to go about 1/2 way unless I jerk it up. Bands somehow to tight and need to be realigned? Puzzled

Legume

I don't understand from the description and the pics why it won't open.  The springs on my XL used to come off about half of the time I opened it to the point that I just stopped reconnecting them and ran for 3-4 months without them.  Someone pointed out to me that they're probably installed upside down - I pulled them off and flipped them and they have worked great ever since.  I never had a problem opening the egg though - it was just a bit heavier.

Tikaanikaeda81

1st pic is the spring I reattached. Is it upside down? 2nd is it opened. That's where it wants to stop. It looks misaligned. I mean if I out force it opens all the way but it wasn't like this last night. Trying to figure out if the bands may have slipped or what happened

td66snrf

Tikaanikaeda81   I had something similar happen on my large, not that the spring came off, but the lid seized up and didn't want to open. What had happened was a bolt that the hinge pivots on had tightened up. I loosened them up and it solved the problem. I would suggest you go out and loosen up all the bolts that have nylock nuts on them on the compound hinge. Good luck. I hope this solves your issue. 

R2Egg2Q

Your spring does look upside down. Here's the spring on mine:

I recall causing that same issue with the dome on my XL once when I was checking bolts and I thought I'd take up what I thought was a little play in the hinge pivots that td66snrf mentioned and I ended up making one hinge tighter than the other. Loosening it back slightly fixed the issue on mine.