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I've not read this entire thread so thoroughly as i should.
BUT, if soldering on the HIGH pressure side then it might be most advisable to SILVER solder the connexion.

Silver soldering requires only slighlty more heat that lead/tin soldering assuming the use of a torch.

Silver solder is by far and away much stronger than and lead based solder.

Homemade whiskey stills are SILVER soldered using food grade silver solder. NOT just because lead based would be toxic but mostly due the superior strength of silver solder.

I moved the heater element over to the good housing with the good motor. Testing with the wiring in series on 12v and it blowing good air and only pulling about 2amps. Starting at 2.15 amps and went down to 1.94amps the longer it ran.

The amount of air moving over the coil didn't warm the air that much and the coil never glowed red. But once the power was cut, you could feel the residual heat on the coil.

So I tested with the wiring in parallel and it pulled about 4.3 amps. The motor didn't seem any appreciably faster, and the air was warmer, but coil never glowed. But you could feel more heat coming off of it.

I think the amount of air pushing over the coil keeps the coil from getting too hot.