No-Calk Shower Drain Wrench

When i installed my Shower! I bought An Oarey Shower Drain!I used the Wrench that came with it To install The drain! After about ten years The pipe slipped Down! I should have put a Strap To hold the Pipe up closer to the Trap and drain! And when the drain pipe slipped down i had a Small leak!So when i went to loosen the ring Nut to install a new Rubber seal! the wrench that was Supplied with the drain would not loosen it!it Bent the tool! So i ordered this Oatey Drain wrench!Boy it was a Breaze Fixing it!! It a real Awesome Wench!Being a retired Toolmaker The Quality And design is top Notch! I would recommend this to any Plummer to have in his Tool Box!!And the service from Supply House was Fast!!Thank you Guys!!

I don't blame the wrench completely. The drain I was trying to unscrew had been permanently fused in place, I think, by whomever installed it. Possibly by PVC cement or something stronger. However, my vain struggles illuminated the shortcomings of this tool. 1) The center hex-bump supposedly allows you to apply force with your own wrench or ratchet, but it just doesn't have enough grip if you need to apply major torque. My major problem was that the harder I hauled on it, the more often the wrench slipped off the hex, or the prongs slipped out of the drain. There's no way to apply downward force while also turning it. 2) Not sure what metal it's made of, but it's chrome-plated and not super durable. Bits broke off under my most severe abuse, which involved attaching a long wrench to the hex with JB Weld and whacking the end of the handle with a rubber mallet in an attempt to transfer torque from the tool to the drain. The tool broke before the drain did. I ended up tossing the mangled remains of this thing in the trash, then cut a hole in the ceiling under where the shower was, and sawed off the drain pipe below the connection.