Diy bulkhead fitting

It is a straight forward process to build your own bulkhead fitting.

All content here is available for continued discussion at the new forums. Just go to your local home improvement store and go to the electrical isle and get the gray electrical fittings in the size you need. Then get two o'rings that fit the threads snugly. If you need a pic let me,I got a few 1" ones here. It is useless to resist. We will assimilate you into our collective. Resistance is futile.

Diy bulkhead fitting

Forums New posts Search forums. What's new New posts New profile posts Latest activity. Members Current visitors New profile posts Search profile posts. Log in. Search titles only. Search Advanced search…. New posts. Search forums. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Thread starter saltn00b Start date Jan 10, While there are a lot of household and industrial applications for them, you won't find bulkhead fittings at Home Depot. I will show you below how you can easily and inexpensively improvise PVC bulkhead fittings from common parts from the hardware store. You are becoming a regular McGiever aren't you Oh, I was joking with you I thought that was you talking and you were showing how to do it.

Add a rubber gasket and some silicone grease and you've got an inexpensive DIY bulkhead adapter. We will assimilate you into our collective.

I couldn't find any bulkheads for a reasonable price so I went to home de s pot and bougt some PVC parts and made my own The reason you can't just use a male connector and a female connector as a bulkhead is because the male threading is actually gets thicker as it gets screwed in no obvious dirty jokes please! This is so that the threads don't leak. Well what that means is that if you took the male connector, and stuck the threaded part through a hole in your tank, then took a female part and screwed it onto the male part, it would not screw up tight against the tank and not make a good seal! So what I did was I too a slip 90 degree elbow any slip part would work and sliced off a piece of the adapter to use as a spacer that fits perfectly over the make adapter threads!

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Diy bulkhead fitting

This is how to install a bulk head fitting on a rain barrel without silicone, without leaks, and ready for your water valve. This can be done on sealed barrels that have the two inch bung holes. I used an open top barrel to show how it works. Be sure to get a fitting that will fit through the bung hole. Also, I bought one fitting at Home Depot, but when I got home and read the label it had a warning about it containing lead.

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Save yourself the time and trackdown this guy. SeaMountain Posted October 8, Archived This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies. You must log in or register to reply here. Inline Feedbacks. That way the lure of the low price gets you, but they make all their profit on "handling"! Its been in service since November without any problems. Order up a few when you place an online order for other dry goods. Find More Posts by kgross. The gasket is on the inside of the tank, with the wide portion of the "L" up against the glass. The smaller one is the 1-inch size.

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Posted March 10, Am I missing a huge part of the equation here? I took a walk down the electrical aisle at Menards and found threaded PVC connectors for electrical conduit. The female adapter was screwed on from the outside. More to follow You could probably mess around with which side you put the spacer on. If you are really ambitious, I think that using a properly sized die could be used to make the threads fit. Oh, I was joking with you Awesome DIY how to. Insert the coupler with the male threads through the hole from the inside of the container. I didn't want to wait for the bulkheads via mailorder, since I had all the rest of the plumbing. All content here is available for continued discussion at the new forums.