Anyone else sitting in their empty bathtub with tools and a mess everywhere watching this video hoping to god it will help get the damn broken drain out of the friggin tub?!

The most helpful vid about this situation I've viewed over the past hour. Thank you gor making this vid and clearing stating the tool necessary.

Thanks! spent 2 days and a lot of draino thinking the drain was clogged. Following your video I used picture frame wire wrapped around a cup hook (macguyver-ed it) and fixed the drain in less than 5 minutes.

exactly the info I needed, extra props for giving the product name and number too!

Very well done...have 20 year tub and need to replace drain. Tried the prong remover but it broke the cross pieces. Just got this tool and am preparing with a lil help from youtube. Thinking of heating the drain to soften any putty/caulk. Also thinking of using impact wrench for the vibration factor.

Saw the video and bought this puppy at my local Ace Hardware for $20. It worked exactly like it was supposed to. Thank you for solving that ugly problem!!!!!!

My husband used your technique to remove and replace two drains. Worked out beautifully--and I am sure much cheaper than a plumber's bill would have been. Thank you for such great instructions!

Thanks going to try it 2morrow- cheap metal melted off and around the threads on the plastic fitting - hopefully this will work

Just used one of these extractors on my very corroded, very stuck drain. I had to use more than a "love tap" and added a foot or so galv. pipe to the ratchet handle for more torque. But, it finally gave way and came out! Thanks for the video!

Thank you. It worked like a charm.

Just used this extractor and it was amazing! Great video!

Thanks for showing that tool! I was getting ready to get out a hammer and chisel.

This video deserves more views and likes.

Great demo, many thanks! My issue is how to get the broken trip lever plug out of the drain? No back panel anywhere! Tried for an hour with a hook, no luck.

Beautifully done

PERFECT!! THANKX JAMES PATTERSON!

Thank you so much for the tip!!! Saved me!

Good video. Thank you for posting.

I bought the tool and it worked on 27 year old fiberglass tub drain. I did have to tap a lot harder than I expected as it slipped out a few times. Once it began to turn, I kept the pressure on it to keep it moving.

i bought this exact one cuz i saw ur video. I was not going to risk damaging my 1500 dollar bathtub over 21 dollars! Ive done some really effing stupid stuff before and this wasnt going to be the day! All the other ideas of getting that thing out were extremely horrible to me. got it at lowes and it was as easy as can be. I dont think there could be a better tool. I just hate having extra stuff cuz I already look like a hoarder all the tools i got. But never mind that it was worth every penny! If i was cheap id take the tool back to lowes haha. Thank you sir.

I bought one today at Home Improvement 18 dollars,Nashville Ark (worked like charm) thread new tub drain at angle it came out (dont cross thread)

Yay! Tub drain fixed! I was afraid we were going to have to live with a rubber stopper forever

Man. You're a lifesaver bro!!! Thanks. I was just replacing my drain and that fucker busted.

Thank you

thank you

great job. i ran into a strip out myself

ah i missed the tapping part. thank you ill try that!

This tool never gripped even with constant hammering

Great job, what about heat?

Mr Hollow Down, thanks for your video. This happened to me: bought the Tub Drain Remover Wrench and started unscrewing and unscrewing and although it seemed to initially loosening and unscrewing, I then realized it was not coming out. After going in circle and it not unscrewing, I stopped not knowing exactly what was going on. It never unscrewed but it would move in circle. The drain part is only 14 yrs old. Have no idea if I can use the tub at all at this point. Any ideas? Any help is extremely valuable and appreciated. Puzzled in SanFran

Where do you buy that tool at? Thank you for your response.

Sorry I should have said the tool was too big to go into the drain hole far enough to get any traction. I bought the tool long before I saw your video. I just assumed that the drains were all the same size. Later I found out that Superior Tool only makes the 1 1/2 " size in that model. I went to their website and saw that they offered a more expensive model that was suitable for 1- 3/8" and the 1- 1/2". My drain will not turn. I bought the other tool that fits in like a fork. I used a 3 foot pipe as extra leverage. I used the heat gun. In all the videos that I saw nobody had to apply the force that I used. We are getting our bathtub re-finished and I thought that installing a shiny new drain would compliment the job. Any future work on the drain will be done by a professional. Over and out and thanks for the tutorial.

Could we do the same in a condo apartment? Thanks

Any suggestions to get the extractor to stay n the drain?

God send!@Thanks!

This works great only if you tap it with the wrench off. Then put the wrench on to twist it.

I wonder how hard it was to get the extractor back off the old piece. Was that simple enough?

I bought One of these because the T cross or whatever you want to call it broke. The thing doesn’t go in snug because I think my drain is bigger than a standard drain. What do I do in this case? I have tried everything I have found on KZfaq and I can’t get it out. It is very corroded

What size is the wrench

Where do you go get one of them

My bathtub drain started corroding within just a couple of years of installation. Do you know of a brand that is not going to corrode so quickly? Thx.

Just keeps spinning... any tips?

Could you please give us an idea what to do if the drain just keeps spinning? I'm stuck!

Ok...this looks great! But, now, how do you tighten the new drain in, without scratching it all up?

I had a leaking tub cartridge I was unaware of. Bought the house it’s been leaking fo over a year. I replace the Cartridge so it took care of the leak. But there’s like black mold and hard build up all inside. Can I just use vinegar and baking soda or do I need to pull my tub out and replace all this plumbing pipe?

What is the tool name?

Where should I get it?

I've watched a few of these videos about this extractor tool. I just can't get it to catch and all the "taps" are just chipping the corroded drain apart. I'm no pro but I've done enough plumbing ... I can't be the only one who has run into this problem with this tool?

what type of extension did you use in your socket? It didn't look like a regular extension.

After you remove the drain, are you able to separate the tool from the drain, so you can use again?

Is there a tool like this that will allow you to reinstall the same drain, in particular one where the cross-piece at the bottom is broken such that a traditional drain wrench cannot be used?

I tried one of these tools and it keeps popping out. When i bang it with a hammer, it doesn't fit snuggly and pops out when i turn it. Help.

Where do you get this? I tried a drain wrench but it kept on slipping. Could you put ia link?

Can drain still be removed if drain top rim is gone and inside cross metal?

I tried using the same tool, one it started to move all it did was start spinning freely and wasn’t coming out

Doesn't grip at all for my 1/2" drain. Returning to Lowes.

Awesome

Had high hopes for this attachment. It unfortunately did not work. I had to hack saw pizza pie quarters of the drain off very carefully till the large portion left could be removed by hand.

just tried to remove my drain piece and the tines on the inside broke, so found your video next, and imma go buy that tool or whatever it is. WHAT IS IT CALLED? the bronze colored piece you're using?

Now how do you get the drain removal tool out out of the drain?

What kind of bit is that on rachett

This Tool did not work for me either! i ended up using the Claw of my Hammer slightly tilted and turned counter clockwise and came right out. I will be returning this tool back for Refund!

Bought one of those babies, and had to really bang it into the drain to make it grip. Finally, one drain turned out with the help of a cheater bar. Using the same tool for a second drain didn't work so well. The tool continually slips, making it worthless.

Will that tool still work if the top half of the drain is broken off?

What was the attachment that went into the Tub Drain Extractor that you had connect into your ratchet? im trying to find that part. thanks in advance.

Part 2?

Where I can buy the extractor??

We should buy this tool to start with instead of a drain wrench.

I just purchased the tool not the brass one. And I doesn't work just slips. And when I put it in drain, it doesn't sit up high enough so you can tap it down.

Fucking legend.

Have a hard time buying an extractor. Homedepot/ Lowes don't have them.

Until that knurled extractor doesn’t bite and you lose your damn mind!! Speaking from experience.

If you absolutely can't spin the tub drain you can cut 3 cuts into the tub strainer and hit them with a large screwdriver and hammer 🔨. Be VERY careful NOT to cut the tub especially if it's FIBERGLASS

Maybe 1 out of 100 cone out like this. It's obvious he had already loosened the drain prior to filming. Most if the time you'll be cutting it out and good luck with the remaining threads to replace it especially if you're on a slab and there is no access to the assembly below.

I got the tool. I started the job by putting the the thing in the drain hole. I found that It did not fit the hole. It has to kind of go deep enough to get some traction. I hope I will get a refund from the store.

tried this tool...wouldn't grip

this tool does not work if the drain is too corroded.....you have to cut it out or notch and hit with chisel or screwdriver

Wow who else is watching this video after trying just about every tool u can think off!!!!!😢😢😢😢

Asked one handy guy to help and he put chemical in and used a flat tool of some sort. He basically butchered it. So now I have half that metal drain stuck and I can’t do your trick. What do I do? 😂

That didn’t work..nothing left to connect to in the drain…now what? I want this OUT…so I can put new one in.

Some human beings is much more stubborn than a bathtub drain 😅😅😅😅😅😅

Fyi, measure your inner diameter of your bad drain. These tools will NOT work on all drains! I have 1.75" inner diameter drain that need removed. This tool is only 1.625" at it widest! It will NOT remove my drain.

Same tools, same tub drain. Never worked.

Too big for the drain.

Tool teeth did not bite and slipped every time. Frustrating garbage. That brass coloured coating even flaked off. Piece of junk and a waste of time and money. The metal teeth in the extractor tool need to be harder than the tub drain it needs to cut into.

Not worth the money. Does not grip and it slips. Worthless tool.

THAT TOOL IS GARBAGE. LISTEN GUYS: GARBAGE, IT DOESN'T WORK. You need other things.