30s Vintage Shower Head Problem

Good Afternoon,

I recently rented a home built in the 1930's, which inexplicably contains the original shower head. I believe this head is missing some parts, because taking showers in there is akin to standing in front of a fire-hose.

I'll try to describe what I've got - I've also drawn a rudimentary diagram and attached it. The pipe coming out of the wall has a ball formed into the end. There's also a threaded compression sleeve that goes over the ball, and screws onto the current shower head.

The home is plaster & lat, so I'm fairly certain that I don't want to mess with the stem coming out of the wall. It might unscrew, but the pipes are quite old, and replacing it would likely create a HUGE problem. I'd rather have some kind of adapter for the threaded compression sleeve that converts it down to a regular sized shower head. Does anything like this exist? If so, where might I obtain one?

Any guidance you guys can provide would be tremendously appreciated.

Thanks!

Looks like this is exactly what I was looking for:

http://www.hardwareandtools.com/invt/u738062

Isn't it great that we can access the sum of human knowledge via Google?

Cheers,

K

You are better off replacing the shower arm with the standard 1/2" threaded on both sides style.