Mech, the tip cleaner I used does not have serrations all the way to the end of the wire, so I'm sure I just pushed out some chrud blocking the passage.
American Honda power equipment lists a carb tip cleaner set that looks a lot like welding tip cleaners, so I'm not so keen on banishing them from anyone's toolbox, but having said that I do think that they can be miss used by novices who don't understand the how sensitive jets are to modification. I'd much prefer to replace it with an OEM jet of the same size or a different size if the engine has been modified. I firmly believe in letting the engine tell us what it wants in the fuel system. I do that me riding the vehicle and doing a spark plug color check.