Originally posted by HardyRestoration:
Is it oxidized or brushed aluminum?
A lot of companies do just polished alum. but I've seen a few brushed.
Cant tell, it could be either in the picture 
The oxidation I was talking about is on the switch stuff under the ... well, I don't know what it's called -- the star-shaped piece under the snap ring that on stock columns provides the locking mechanism -- it's rusted. You really can't see it in the pictures. I haven't taken it apart to see how bad it is, but if it has any rust at all I want to replace it.
Hank @ ididit is pretty sure it's a Brookville Roadsters column. I was only able to find one picture of their column online, and it was a small line drawing in a PDF from a catalog page, but it does look similar. I emailed the picture links to Brookville and hope they'll have an answer for me soon. :-)
