RogueRose
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Threading PVC for a removable water-tight cap (PVC or non PVC cap)
I'm wondering if anyone has ever seen PVC pipes threaded to receive a cap of some type. What I am picturing is some kind of plastic bottle/jug lid
that can be screwed on and create a water tight seal. I'm looking for 3/4 - 1.5" pipe.
I need to be able to take the cap off the pipe periodically and it needs to be water tight. I have seen some threaded caps for 3" pipe but I think it
needs special tape to be water-tight (which needs re-applied each time I think). This cap doesn't need to withstand too much pressure, probably 1 ATM
or so.
IDK if there is something that can be used or if someone has done something similar and has come up with their own solution.
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j_sum1
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I'd be asking questions at my local hardware store for that one.
You can probably find something with an O ring that would work. But I confess that I can't quite envisage exactly what you want to set up.
I have some screw-on PVC end caps that I intended to make a ball mill with but it has become one of those half-completed projects that I have so many
of.
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NedsHead
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You can buy threaded couplings that fit all the common PVC sizes, you glue them into the pipe and they have an exposed thread that will take a cap,
the cap usually has a rubber O ring. for stuff in the 3/4 to 1.5" try the irrigation section at your local hardware, they’ll have something you can
work with.
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feacetech
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Or you can use PTFE tape to seal the thread its removable and replaceable and common used on threads to make them water tight
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