🐍 Cobra Products Metal Drain Clearing Drum Auger - 1/4-Inch-by-25-Foot Review

Many thanks to C. White for the detailed and inspiring advice. Used on a kitchen sink by screwing the tip into the drain hole (the siphon has not been removed). The drain was almost completely clogged - after each run it got a little better until I had used the full length. I never felt it hit the blockage, so I made sure to use a back and forth twisting motion until the last pass. Very easy after reading the tips here - the included instructions weren't very helpful. And in my case not dirty…

This handy, easy to use rod has saved me a large plumbing bill. The sink I use for shaving flowed slowly and gurgled. I poured half a glass of sewer cleaner down the drain. I let it sit and followed it up with a long hot water rinse. When I was done there was absolutely no change in the clogged drain. When this little baby was born, five minutes later I sent a metal snake down the drain. I removed the spool and it fits neatly back into the handle. The process works perfectly. I'm not practical.

I had a sluggish bathtub drain and this 25 foot snail snake allowed me to fix the problem after several tries. Although he pulled out a few balls of material, the last attempt apparently pushed the main clog into the large main pipe, where it could then be flushed out of the system. I put a towel in the tub to keep the metal snake from scratching the paint. The snake became quite frothy as I repeatedly pushed it down the drain and pulled it out again. When I was done, I rinsed it out in the tub

This is an economical, environmentally friendly way to clear slow or clogged drains. As other reviewers have said, there are almost no instructions, but simply run the tape down the drain until a clog appears, then hold the pistol grip and twist the auger to "grab" the obstruction by you push it in or pull it back. To clean it, throw the unwound part that was inside the whistle in the tub and rinse with bleach, then hang to dry. Apply a light coat of WD40 before rolling it back up. Not the…

This is great for clogs near the drain, but I can't imagine using the full 25 feet. I had a blockage where I had to first remove the plastic pipes under the sink, then go two inches into the wall, turn 90 degrees and go down two feet, turn another 90 degrees and go down about six feet , all two inch steel tubing Inside. About two feet from the last section, the line got stuck for no apparent reason. I squeezed and twisted it hard and it wouldn't budge. Then it occurred to me that the twisting…

I bought this product to clean a slowly leaking left hand sink drain in a double vanity. The P-trap had been previously cleaned so I pulled out the P-trap assembly and routed the serpentine wire out from the wall pipe. The first turn was difficult to navigate but eventually I figured out how to maneuver the snake through that turn. I walked the line about 9 feet until I reached the south bend of the Y-tube junction; and I couldn't get the snake to move on at that moment. No blockages were…

This thing did what the plumber wanted to charge me over $100 for, which was to unclog my sink. Also the product is bigger and heavier than it looks in the pictures so I think it will last a long time. I tried liquid plumbing and it worked for about 2 days and then the sink was completely clogged again. I undid the latch on the bottom of the U-shape under the sink and pushed the thing deep down the drain. It took a bit of fiddling to get to the bend where the drain pipe meets the drain pipe…

I was a bit skeptical because the price was so low but the reviews were so good that I decided to give it a try. If it hadn't worked, it would have been an acceptable loss. I'm happy to say that this is by far the best investment I've made in a long time. I rent a house with old pipes that give me trouble about every six months. I got tired of calling the landlord or roto-router and incurring charges for what was always a ridiculously small pile of everything, and everything else was slowly…