never thought to take the second part off. Will try that. And yeah we have been covering the wire in it with an old shirt because it dont get used too often anymore. It will sit for a good couple months sometimes between uses. They mainly bought it cause while back we got a few new coupany trucks and they used it to bould beds for on it to hold all the tools. And good idea blowing it out. That might help. It could of got bumped like you said and have a little bad spot in it too. Ive been told by a welder to just spray a little wd-40 on the wire every once in a while to keep it from rusting and also it will lube up the linner, only downfall is she smokes a little. Also to take a ear plug and put it on the wire right after spool to clean it some.