🔧 Pentair OMNIFilter OW70 Strap Wrench: Universal Tool for Water Filter Housing's Maintenance and Removal Review

Works great, now I don't have to pull all the skin off my hand when trying to change my home filter and my hand slips and scrapes the concrete block walls in my basement. Why didn't I get it sooner?

We have a very odd sized filter and tried a few different standard wrenches before we came across this adjustable wrench. This is by far the best version we've used! It fits the filter housing perfectly, but is held tight enough to disassemble the housing if necessary.

I bought this for my son who has several cars and tries to do his best for his service. He was very happy with it and explained that he had wanted one for a long time. It looks like a nice addition to its maintenance toolset.

I'm sad because I had to buy this strap wrench to open two filter housings. I've only used this tool for less than 15 seconds. It worked great. I can't help but wonder if there could be a better case design to avoid the need for strap wrenches. If I had a regular everyday strap wrench I would use it first and probably successfully, but now I have this wonderful blue OMNI filter wrench and it gets through those stubborn filter housings quickly.

I bought this based on the drawing and guessing this would fit the Omni-Filter U-25 model. Far from matching the picture. Instead of 12 internal tabs to engage the 12 holes on my clear plastic U-25 filter cartridge, this product, marked OW40 on the paper label and SW-2 on the black plastic key, has only 4 tabs. It's useless to me (although I'm sure it works with other filters). The picture on the Revain website looks like the blue plastic key I'm trying to replace - this black plastic SW-2 key…