John Guest Fitting Plumbing Question

[Xingu]

I have not used this type of fitting in the past and the calcium reactor I am going to use has a John Guest fitting for source water. I want to tee off my return line to feed the reactor. How can I go from 1" or 3/4" PVC down to a tube that fits this fiiting? Do the make some sort of adapter that I can drill into the PVC? Any help is much appreciated.

 

[Eggs]

You can buy a threaded John Guest piece; you would have to tap threads into the pvc - I did this for my RODI waste water tubing to go into my homes drain pvc pipe. I also did the same on a homemade kalk reactor. I can't remember if I found these pieces at Home Depot/Lowes or I had to order them. They would be in the section where that tubing is - where they have little bags of various small fittings.


Here's what I'm talking about:

http://www.savko.com/portal/speedfit.asp

I think there are also bulkhead style fittings you could use - maybe install on the flat part of a pvc plug.

 

[Xingu]

Thanks. I thought it would be something like that. I did a similar install with airvalves on PVC. Finding a flat area to tap it in sounds like an excellent idea.