The epoxy worked well. Luckily that part of the shifter bowl is not structural. Then I dealt with the collapsible mast. That is the outside part of the column that looks like expanded metal mesh. It is designed to collapse in a crash and it did. We figured that a mast from a standard column may work the same so we cannibalized a parts column. The mesh part was similar, the lower section was identical, but the upper end was different. I decided to leave the lower section with the mesh alone, but cut the mesh at the top. Then graft the tilt top end to the mesh. Not knowing the actual assembled length I left it as long as I could. I can always shorten it but I can't lengthen it. It is very delicate work to weld the mesh ends to the top. They want to just melt immediately. The ones that did I had to reinforce. Here is a pic of how it turned out. The small piece on the left is the standard column top. You can see it is longer and shaped different than the tilt one. The next thing is to assemble it and see if the parts fit properly.