Tetherspout first time try and review

The bits arrived yesterday after what felt like a eternal wait! I’d ordered the 26Ff retainer (smallest available) after attempting to measure myself with a felt tip pen with Sellotape wrapped around it to make the size up - not the most pleasant experience ever
I also ordered two spouts, a short one with a hole though the end and a longer one which is threaded M6x1p. I’ve now ordered, but yet to arrive from eBay, a 10ga curved barbell.
So I took the opportunity this morning to try it out
The retainers are the rubber type (they where out of stock of the stainless which where also about 5x more expensive too) and I had to polish off some mold flashing from the outside with 800 grit wet and dry (provided). A bit fiddly but not a big deal.
I got 10” of dental floss and some water based lube and was ready to go!
Following the instructions on the X’s blog (X - apologies I forget your username!) I got the floss looped through the spout with a hole and pushed it in
It went in really easily! I then used the second spout to push it in further. Now getting really nervous, I threaded the retainer onto the floss and pushed that in to using the second spout. Also, no problem... (perhaps I could have gone bigger??). Anyway, turning it to get the first spout threaded through was a bit tricky. I then realised how thin the skin is on the underside behind the glans and how easy it is to feel what’s going on! Turning it the right way was helped by gentility pulling on the floss. I did try using the second retainer to ‘turn it’ but given it’s threaded, I didn’t want to push it around too much down there . I got it lined up, held the retainer though the skin and pulled on the floss so the spout threaded all the way though! This short spout isn’t quite long enough to poke out, if I put a barbell on it, the spout would be hidden. Probably work quite well!
As I didn’t have one I desired to take it out. Now, I should have checked there wasn’t any flashing on the INSIDE of the retainer too. There is and it made getting the spout back out really quite tricky . I tried pushing it back with the second spout but given it’s threaded, this caused a little bleed . In the end I managed to hold the retainer through the skin and push the spout, also though the skin, at the same time . Then it all came out like a string of perls on the floss ! The bleeding stopped and hasn’t been a problem since. I think not panicking and having patients this actually would’ve been fine...
I’m now very excited to fit the barbell (need to explain this all to my wife as yet ) and see how it feels for extended wear! It felt absolutely fine at the time, didn’t feel like I’d pushed something up there surprisingly (not like a sound) and when I tried pulling really quite hard on the floss, there was no way it was coming out!! A very strange and quite scary feeling!
Really excited now about the prospect of integrating this into a chastity cage!

 

Sorry @zorglub, I referred to you a ‘X’ above...

I’ve just tried to edit my post to make the correction but the edit option seems to have disappeared?

 

Things I’d do differently are, I’d buy two non-threaded spouts. The threaded one seems like a good idea if using with a chastity cage but I’m not sure how (if) to use it that way yet. Also with no hole for the floss...
I’d get a short and a longer one too on the basis that you can’t measure how long you will need before hand.
As I’m in the UK and postage was so slow, I’d didn’t buy the measuring sounds. I did the measuring with tape and a veneer caliper. Not everybody can do this so I’d have to recommend the proper measuring kit.
I feels like what I can only imagine a fully healed and stretched PA must be like but in an instant...
My recommendation is to make sure the retainer is a easy fit on the spout so getting it on and, more especially, off is easier!!

 

@cogman I hadn’t thought of the rubber cap working like that... Blanking the end off, so to speak, what does it feel like when you come?

 

@frisianm that’s interesting, do you have a photo please of how it attaches to the looker02?

 

Excellent - thanks

 

The curved barbell arrived today so I gave it a try. I now know that 2.4mm (10ga) is too small and also as the spout is too short, the barbell sits into the tip of my urethra and pinches badly It was OK for a while but 10hrs in I found a little blood on a tissue after wiping so i removed it ASAP!
Anybody got any spare longer spouts?!
The plan was to just see how it feels for a day or two and see what the mornings feel like! Well, that’s not happening now!

I also just made a 316 threaded ‘boss’ that locates into the end of my cage and fits onto the longer threaded spout I’ve got. The idea is to pass the spout though the end of the cage and then screw this on from the outside. It’s not the best plan but hoping to just try out the theory that tethering it in this way isn’t uncomfortable....

I’d like something that:

• my wife will hopefully like the look of (ie perhaps a curved barbell so looks like a regular piercing)
• Can be secured/released from the cage quickly. I’m considering a clam-shell mod that ‘captures’ a curved barbell.
  
• Something that doesn’t need removing for PIV sex.
• Ideally something that doesn’t need an additional lock or securing mechanism eg a 3.5mm hex key!

 

I tried the threaded spout with a threaded boss to retain it to the end of the cage earlier. It pinched badly as expected...

I also relieved the inside of the ‘rubber’ tether so it was a looser fit on the spout but it seems that it still grips hard when trying to remove it

Overall I was feeling a bit knocked-back at that point...

But I have just ordered some 316 round bar to make my own retainer. Pulling the rubber one off really isn’t fun at all!! I’m also going to not bother with the threaded spout. I’ll cut the external thread off and drill a new through-hole. Even then it will still be longer than the other one. I’ve also got a 8ga 16mm long curved barbell on order to try with this.

 

Well, not wanting to waste time I had a rummage around and found some 316... so I now have a SS retainer

It’s turned out at 12.3mm so I think that’s 27Ff? I’ll give it ago but can always polish it down if it’s too big. It’s very similar cross section to the ‘rubber’ one but it slides nicely on the spout

Talking of which, I’ve cut the thread off the end and drilled a new hole.

Photos below ‘artistically’ shot in the dirty workshop! Trust me, they will be CLEAN before I try them!!

 

I made the retainer from an old 316 lifting eye (of all things) as it was available - I have ordered round bar stock but it’s not arrived as yet. I made it on a manual lathe - it’s more ‘art’ than engineering! It does measure the right dim (OK so it’s 0.3mm bigger...) and it’s the right thickness but the profile isn’t perfectly repeatable. I’m hoping close enough is good enough...
The spout was purchased but had an external M6 thread at the end. I cut this off and drilled a 2.5mm hole for the barbell.
Making a spout from scratch would take a fair bit of effort given the length, tolerance and surface finish. I’d probably look to start with stainless tube, braze a boss on the end and machine down and then polish.

To be honest, what I did took a good few hours of work and wasn’t something I was hoping to have to do again, but could be persuaded...