Great to hear you got it running. As mentioned, some postwar AF steam engines came with a thin black ~5/8" wide strip of paper over the smoke unit contacts held into place with masking tape. I found that if you can't reuse the original paper strip (too saturated with fluid, etc.) manilla file folder material and fresh tape do the trick nicely. Have the area and smoke unit body clean and dry before installation. Also some have been found with similar insulation on the ceiling of their cab roofs to prevent field connection points from contacting the shell. Not all, but some.
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