"Jim Wilkins" fired this volley in news:jn64p6$vu7$1
@dont-email.me:

Can you slide a piece of hobby-store telescoping brass tubing into the
original tube and solder it?

Maybe not hard tubing, because it's an elbow at the tank -- goes in the
side at the very top, then down. But I _might_ be able to do the sewer
pipe trick, and line it with some flexible tubing.

Lloyd