Help with plumbing

[glee]

This is a clam gun. The elbow on the left is a 1/2” fitting that is suppose to attach to the clam gun body to the right. Unfortunately, the builder of this tool did not provide enough 1/2” pvc to attach to the elbow. I only used this clam gun 3x and it snapped on me last weekend. I purchased this more than a year ago from a seller in Oregon so don’t feel like messing around with a return or warranty repair.

My initial thoughts were to buy pvc with outer dimensions equal to the inner dimensions of 1/2” pvc, glue into the base, glue 1/2” pvc into the “joiner”, and glue the 1/2” pvc to the elbow but google does show pvc with outer dimensions equal to inner dimensions of 1/2” pvc.

The grey ring on the body is glued on to the pvc on the right side. This acts as a “stopper.” Can this be easily removed?

Anyone have experience with this and can provide some advice? Thanks.

 

[Coral reefer]

Pvc didn’t break just the bond failed? Probably could put it back on with pvc solvent or maybe even super glue looks like to me

 

[Coral reefer]

And wtf is a clam gun?!?

 

[glee]

Yes, just the bond failed. Feels like it will eventually fail again since the edge to glue to the elbow is so short.

 

[glee]

This video is similar to what we have. We do pull up ghost shrimps but we use it to pull clams

 

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[Srt4eric]

Is this a coupler?

 

[Srt4eric]

Cut that part down a bit carefully and then you'll have more area to glue the 90 back

 

[glee]

Is this a coupler?

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That white area is 1/2" pvc. The grey part is also pvc slipped over the 1/2" pvc. I could chop it off but it would reduce the amount of sand I pull from the tool.

 

[RandyC]

Get a 1/2” reamer drill bit and remove the white pipe from the coupler.

 

[Turkeysammich]

I think you live near me. If you’re stuck. You can bring it over and we can figure it out.