Uhm, what you've described in your second post basically shows that you didn't have the problem mentioned in the first post. If you still have a circuit with the tip depressed then the tip hasn't depressed far enough rather than has depressed too far. Either your spring is too long, the wire wasn't set far enough down, or you just have some sort of manufacturer's mismatch that doesn't work together (yeah, in THEORY all french type are the same, and all german type are the same, but that's clearly not the case once you start playing with parts from different sources).
Once the wire's glued you probably can't do anything with the contact setter (except possibly break the wire).
One fun thing that my team discovered last year is that they'd gotten a batch of foil pressure springs that were made w/an insulator coating the spring.... brilliant move by the manuafacturer. Completely unrelated to your problem, but another interesting story nonetheless.
It's kind of too late to help you with you foil now, post about problems before rewiring next time and we should be able to troubleshoot it for you.
One further note: In your first post you say "I did on one of my weapons so that the tip didn't touch the cap when it was depressed." In a foil the tip (via the spring) is ALWAYS in contact with the top of the wire, whether or not the tip is depressed doesn't change this. If you have this problem when depressed you already had the problem before depressing (note, this doesn't fit your description of your problem in your second post).
Hope that helps.
-B
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