Snap reedy, did the exact same thing today when trying to stir in my grain, managed to fish the pipe out with my paddle and reinstall. Glad it isn't just me and I had just read your post before I did it. My current issue is that the temp seems stuck on 99, occasionally getting to 100 (hh) which is very annoying as the alarm keeps beeping when it flicks over to 100. Has this happened to anyone before? Last brew was fine (well apart from 40% efficiency but I've tracked that back to be down to poor crush from hbs). Don't really think its an issue brew wise that it is sitting between 99 & 100 just annoying when the alarm keeps going off.