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Once we got the pipe pulled through into the first floor, I bent an “L” so that we could feed that 4 ft. length through the wall. Then on the outside I bent another “L” for the line that feeds up to the collector outlet. The collector inlet shoots straight into an “L” on the collector. I happened to have a nifty tubing bender from a previous project, I got it from Harbor Freight Tools for about $7.00. You can’t bend small diameter copper pipe to this tight a radius without the proper tool or the wall will collapse. It was getting dark so the shot at right was taken with a flash.
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Next day I completed the connections by cutting the pipe to length with a pipe cutter, and deburring the inner edge, then the pipe just slips into the swage fitting and I tightened down the nuts with adjustable wrenches. I really like the simplicity of these connections! I hope they hold up to the extreme temperature variations in Maine though.
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