Yes but once disturbed, you have to set in manually...
If there is so much carbon buildup then still no need to remove it, just put some throttle body cleaner and wipe it off...
By practical hands do you mean hit and try method... If you do practical on the basis of theory it will never fail...
It is great that you car is working fine, but you should have put throttle body cleaner, it desolves the carbon...