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Hi, Need some advice. I was trying to push back the split stem into the movement after replacing battery, the split stem (male side) has snapped, think I must have done it incorrectly. Hence I bought a replacement stem (for ETA926.301) from Cousins, but I found the replacement stem is slightly different from the original one, there is a piece of round metal at the top of the male stem (pic with red circle) which is different from original one. The round tip seems to be too thick to push into the female stem. I don't want to repeat my mistake again ny snapping it. Just wanna to check a correct way to fit a split stem into the movement, should I just push in with force at the right angle? Or pre-engage (slide in first) the male stem with the female stem, then push into the movement? Is this tip (red circle in picture) normal? or should it be filed down to fit the female stem? Your advice is much appreciated. Learn a lot from this forum indeed.