Plumbing Fitting for automatic pool cleaner

[waste]

Al, your ingenuity and resourcefulness never cease to amaze me! What you've made here is a DIY 'pipe extender' (sorry, no pic but found them online at:
http://www.plumbingsupply.com/pvc.html#spigot ) They are an interior slip by 'outer pipe diameter' coupling just long enough to take a standard slip fitting - very! useful when you don't want to have to install a whole new fitting or valve. If you cut your pipe to 1.25" you could glue a F/A to be flush to the wall (only the F/A sticking out). I will point out that using one of these reduces the interior size of the pipe, but in a pinch - you gotta do what you gotta do. Ooops, I just noticed that with Al's, you'd need to use a 1.25" to 1.5" bushing to attach a standard 1.5" F/A.

gdubs, welcome to the forum! As you can see, we will go to great lengths to help each other (including going out to the shop to 'hack up' and photograph a peice of pipe ) If you don't have all the tools to reshape a peice of pipe, you can find them {edit - pipe extenders} online (I'm sure that the link I gave is not the only place to find one - knowing that they exist is the starting point for comparative shopping) Before gluing anything into the 'return', double check that you need to (the old owners might have left the attachment fitting you need), and be sure that it's a return driven cleaner -as mas pointed out. Run the pool a few times and see if the cleaner will work without permanently having something stick out into the pool - or if you can contact the old owners, ask them what they used.

There is also the chance that the link I provided has a F/A that will also connect to the ID of a 1.5" pipe (I gotta look that whole site through- they've got some funky and potentially useful fittings ) No one where I work had ever heard of 'pipe extenders' until I had the secretary order some - who knows what fittings exist that I don't know about!?
Good luck with your quest, please keep us informed (& sorry about the kabitzing ) - Waste