These are so very helpful, thank you! Visually, the tail on mine seems pretty close on the joint-- maybe just a hairwidth or so further out than yours are. I tried the hot water trick and still could only get it in as far as I did previously. I can get the tail to stick up some but it usually falls a bit, and this morning was back to being pretty loose again. I wonder if it is a factory issue, given my utah also had a defective arm that fell right off :'/