Yesterday the fittings arrived for plumbing in my new heat-exchanger (car radiator) so that was today’s job.
It’s a generic radiator for small cars costing £23 and I needed to adapt from the 32mm inlet and outlet pipes to my 3/8” JG fittings and pipe work. Here’s the radiator with the fittings attached.
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There is a 32mm-19mm silicon elbow attached to the radiator. Into that I’ve fitted a 19mm-12mm pond hose adapter. That’s connected to a 3/8 JG stem connector (1/2” barb) via a length of 1/2” bore silicon tube.
...and fitted. The odd looking pipe attached to the top left corner is the expansion / bleed pipe, now closed off.
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I have yet to insulate the pipes from the ceiling down but want to give it a soak test first. I also need to refit some guttering to take away the condensation.
Early result are promising with good air-flow (yay!) and very cold air coming out, gave me goosebumps! The temperature started to drop within a couple of minutes. The fan is fitted in suck mode and I’m pretty confident this is the way to go if anyone wants to do something along similar lines.