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Thank Charlie!

This little 90 was been really annoying me.  I just couldn't keep the performance stable and I even switched bases with the one that had the nice tank.  I ended up just putting it up on the shelf to have a think about it for a while.  Sure enough a few days later I had a idea and the right one too.  It dawned on me to check the steam pipe opening, where it meets up to the cylinder.  Sure enough it was mashed a bit and wasn't laying flat against the cylinder.

Here's a little video I made going over this.  Sometimes I am really a idiot and should have realized this a LOT sooner...