Does this pvc fitting exist?

September 14, 2011 3:02 PM

CostumeFilter: Help me identify this plumbing/pvc pipe fitting!

I'm going as Verda the Android this year, and for once I'm giving myself more than a week to make my (always ambitious/over-the-top) Halloween costume. Yay!

I've figured out almost everything I need to construct her costume and helmet, with this exception of this part:

circled in pink

I'm fairly sure I've seen this sort of thing as a PVC pipe fitting, but I scoured that section at Home Depot and didn't see it (but there are HUNDREDS of fittings and I might have missed it). If I knew what it was called, I could ask for it specifically. I don't mind cutting something shorter, but it's important for that sloping shoulder part to exist somewhere (i.e. I reallllllly don't want to recreate it from scratch).

Maybe an adapter fitting of some sort?

If I'm crazy and this doesn't exist as a pipe fitting, any other ideas for what might work? BTW: I've looked at Tap Plastics and didn't find anything that fit the bill.


Thanks!!

posted by bienbiensuper to Grab Bag (6 answers total)

Could probably make something like that with a reducer of appropriate size.
posted by Sternmeyer at 3:05 PM on September 14, 2011

If you find that no reducer is long enough in the wider section before the shoulder, you could use a tiny length of pipe to join a coupler to a reducer so that they butt right up against each other. Use some caulk to fill in the seam before you paint and it should up to Halloween costume standards of smoothness.
posted by contraption at 3:10 PM on September 14, 2011

Yeah, you ought to be able to find something that works by searching for pvc reducer coupling. Example. They come in a variety of shapes/sizes.
posted by phunniemee at 3:10 PM on September 14, 2011

Reducer Coupling
posted by humboldt32 at 3:12 PM on September 14, 2011

I would check out copper fittings as well - this copper reducer looks really close.
posted by muddgirl at 3:13 PM on September 14, 2011

Reducer Coupling! Those are the keywords I was looking for and this is *exactly* what I wanted.

Thanks for the fast replies!
posted by bienbiensuper at 3:15 PM on September 14, 2011