General Wire Spring RTR-1 Drain Cleaner Retrieving Tool

I couldn't get it to go down 1.5 inch pipe. This is for 2 inch and larger

Worked great Did what i needed it to do first try

Does not fit the machine the hole is too far up. It doesn’t work with any kind of route out machine would not buy again a waste of money

I had an unusual occurrence where I was snaking out my waste pipe due to a clog and during that my snake cable snapped leaving about 12 feet of it in the waste drain. I thought I would need to call a plumber which would have defeated the purpose of trying to save money by trying to fix the problem myself. After researching on google to find out if anyone else had a similar problem, I ran across a post of using a tool like this one to snag tools that disconnected during snaking in a waste pipe. I thought that maybe I could snag the broken snake with this tool and decided to give it a try. Well, first I replace the snake cable on my machine with a new one, (it's a 5/16 diameter) and I sent the tool down the pipe to see if it would snag it. No go. I pulled the tool out, and I took a pair of channel locks and a pair of pliers and bent the coil on the end of it out a bit so that it was sticking out straight. It did take some doing since these coils are pretty strong and don't like to bend. I then sent it back down the waste pipe (4 inch diameter) and it seemed like I caught it. I had a hard time pulling it up at first but sure enough I dragged that broken snake up and out of the drain. What a relief seeing that sucker come out of the hole. I did have to modify this thing a little bit... but it did do the trick for what I needed it for and saved me a lot of money.

I used this attached to a 307 foot long piece of 3/4" black poly pipe to retrieve a sensor and 200 feet of wire from the bottom of 305 foot deep well! Super pleased when a plan comes together!!!

I had a cutter tip come off about 35 feet down the sewer line. I was selling the house, and needed to get the cutter out so it didn't clog the lines.When I got the Retrieving Tool, opened up the end of the coil, and put this on the end of a long, coiled-spring sewer "snake" and pushed it and an inspection camera down the hole. I couldn't get the cutter into the coils, so I had to get the end of the coil into a 5/16" hole... fun to do, and nearly impossible, but after a heartfelt prayer I hooked it within 5 minutes and got it out. (see pics)

Great product

just what I expected