I had simply used some copper end caps for testing and silver soldered in a tire stem removed and cleaned up from an old steel rim. The pressure guage was on the other cap with a brass cap silver soldered and drilled thru. I'm not a very big fan for the rubber hose and clamp. This way I would solder the caps on, screw the schader valve and pressure gage charge it and leave it for an hour. Even going to this extreme I had one riser tube with a small weeper that I didn't find in the test. It may had only pressented itself after the rigors of the installation process. I had to cut the glass off and re-touch the silphos soldering.
For Daox's repair of the split tube the silphos solder make the repair neat. It fills gaps nicely. Just squeeze the split tube together and solder it up. Unfortunately this would need a oxy-acetilene torch.
Randen
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