RE: tower 46 troubles
Glad you found the problem.
Are you running fuel filters? Most likely wouldn't be any "lint" in the carb if you were running a filter. A couple bucks in filters will save you all this headache again in the future.
I learned---the hard and frustrating way--that filters are cheap insurance against headaches--that are usually caused by beating your head against the tables and benches at the field when you got some kind of $h*t in your carb.
Just hate to see someone else suffer the same crud I went through.