Abstract: A mechanism for drying a traveling web such as employing a steam heated dryer drum in a papermaking machine with the drum being supported on end bearings in journals in a frame and a rigid condensate removal tube extending through one of the journals with its inner end adjacent the inner surface of the drum and the drum having a rotary steam seal through which the tube passes with a pivotal mount for the rigid tube and a micrometer adjustment which adjusts the pivotal position of the tube so that the inner end of the tube being cantileverly supported can be adjusted accurately relative to the inner surface of the drum.