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Thanks fella's, this is one of the most mucked around with engines! He admitted that when he was a boy and he had it he fiddled with it a lot.
I'm thinking that he must have dropped something ferrous into boiler like nuts or bolts.....when I broke the sight glass more to get it out I found why
I was having difficulty removing it as it had been bedded into silicone.