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All the panels are up now. Just re-tubing where some got damaged. The installed panels covered with 99% reflective blankets to limit them heating up without any glycol in.

 

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Doing the interconnect pipes too in 15mm copper. Boss white and flax string on these joints.

 

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Even some 3D printing along the way. A hand hole saw to clear the expanding foam pocket where the tubes push in:

 

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Then a reforming tool for the bent, aluminium heatsinks:

 

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So not on the "sod it, the bathroom thread is only a million pages long so what's another delay" basis then? 

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On the subject of heat damaging components I'm still a bit concerned about this American obsession with using 'foil faced poly iso" i.e PIR to insulate their solar thermal panels. They reckon it's the

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