by RC Al » Fri Sep 18, 2020 10:40 pm
Its an old outdated design that runs coolant through the column in a couple of places to generate reflux instead of a condenser coil or shotgun style condenser, this isnt really the best place to start unfortunately. I nearly built a similar unit in copper a decade odd a go when i first looked into things - glad I didnt in hindsight, the info available then was little and far between and the hobby has certainly progressed in leaps and bounds since then
If you handy with a welder I would be recycling it all into a coil cm or a boka lm set up, the product condenser wont be handling a huge amount of power either, but would be good to hook up to the output of a boka head
If you have purchased this, im sorry but you've been had - there are many better designs out there and few worse
With adding it so the boiler, a triclamp connection is the easiest for everyday use and there really arnt any easier options in pipe this size and larger without going to bolted flanges and the like