Really? You stood next to it when it was purple? And you remember it? I am truly impressed! I am almost 80, and it had been in the museum for 15 years before I was born.
There is another 60000 thread going right now - on the HONG Z forum.
Scott - if you do this thing, shoot me an e-mail before you finalize the boiler taper. It is asymmetrical, like a lot of the big Baldwins of the era. My boiler was finished and purple before I realized the conical section was straight on the bottom.