The tilt mechanism on top is from the ‘new’ column, which was having problems tilting – probably because of the ‘extra’ piece I found floating around inside (in the middle). The bottom is from the original column that wouldn’t tilt either.

Apparently, that ‘extra’ piece was one of the pivot points and broke off. Fortunately, it looks like the original one is still intact. Maybe I can make one good tilt column out of two bad ones.

The other pics I took came out really blurry, so here we are with the column all back together. Everything works great – except for the key cylinder… which pretty much fell apart. See next picture.

I was almost done when the key cylinder just basically fell apart… then the tumblers dropped out, then it was pretty much all over at that point. I just ordered a new one, so hopefully it’ll be here by next weekend.