Oh my... I cut the wrong end.

this material usually doesnt go back together. I would try to melt the pieces together is a very soft flame.

I read something somewhere about returning an aneros by cutting off both tabs and mailing them back.

Alternatively, you could just call em up and admit to being a bonehead and see if they won't send you another one.

I would not attempt to use one without the p-tab (because I'm never going to be one of those guys you hear about in the emergency room that stuck something stupid up their ass), but I did cut the curly bit off of mine.

this material usually doesnt go back together. I would try to melt the pieces together is a very soft flame.

Great idea. I will try this and see how it goes. The super-glue didn't hold AT ALL. After a few hours, I barely applied pressure and it snapped apart again.

The good news in the short term is I used the new helix as a visual model for me to fix my old one. I got it about 90% looking normal now, so my old one could just become my "new" one again.