Well, now we have a different kettle of fish, haven't we? That flare doesn't look anything like the handsome pipe thread in the parts listing.
It certainly doesn't look like it in the picture, but is that perhaps the reducer and is threaded somehow onto the elbow???
Bottom line, though, I suspect the bunged up clamp is the cause of your leak. If you can get by cleaning up the mating surfaces (but not TOO well!!) with another half a clamp, that'sd be ideal.
Don't know how original you want things, but band clamps have gotten quite fashionable on automotive exhausts. Don't know if they make them down to the size you want. Even if they do, it would take a good counterman to find you the right one without an automotive application. Idea is typical band clamp, tightened down by a t-bolt rather than the screw thread in the band of a hose clamp. Welded to the inside of the band are 2/3/4 (depending on size and application) arcs of channel which grab either side of the elbow and pipe flares and tighten down.
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