All systems go... on Friday morning

The broken & missing parts arrived today. I now know that the broken piece of glass is called the 'sight glass', used to monitor the anti-freeze level.

The missing piece was the strut, used to mount the collector onto our rooftop. Here's the collector, propped up on lumber while Mark ensures it's at the optimum angle...














And then a closeup of the left strut (all aluminum) and the right strut, that we fabricated out of old black pipes from Afshin's salvage piles, until the missing piece arrives.