After sleeping on about changing the whistle base on the No.62 I decided to swap it out with a earlier "round" whistle base. It helped a lot that in Donald Stilson's book the example photo of a No.62 Long Boiler in fact had this older type of whistle base. So no more leaking massive amounts of steam, which would burn the heck out of my fingers when working the regulator and the whistle sound is now awesome. Though now I need to find a better whistle top, so it is the proper style.
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