I let the venturis go in the toaster oven for about 3 hours. During that time the 'tackyness' gradually went away. Took them out and gave them time to cool- now the JB is just as hard as the metal.

Everything had been cleaned up so all there was left to do was reassemble the carb. Once I did that though I followed the instructions on how to adjust everything back to specs and there's something that doesn't seem right. On the step where you calibrate when the secondaries open up (and this was waaaaayyy off on my carb), when all was said and done I found that my secondaries will open when the primaries are about 3/4 open. If I recall correctly I think this is right for most 4bbl carbs - but when I manually open the primaries all the way I notice the secondaries only open about 3/4 of the way - maybe a little more. Is this correct? It seems to me that the secondaries should be almost as open as the primaries?