An amazing trick! Our 1-minute video shows you how to easily retrieve anything that went down the drain…without a pipe wrench or a plumber.
Something Down The Drain?
Retrieve it Without a Wrench.
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Thank you so much for this really helpful tip. It helped me retrieve a hair clip from the drain! (:
Wow this works retreived my $800 dollar braclet..Thank You !!
great trick!! thanks for being so helpful and sharing your wonderful tips with the rest of us.
Great advice, plus you’re adorably funny!
My wife flushed my Chevy Suburban down the drain, and this hack helped me retrieve it. Thanks, Michael!
LOL!
Thanks for this great trick, I retrieved 15 double A batteries hidden inside the pipe when I bought it. Awesome !
I’ve been around construction all my life and have never seen that trick. Awesome!
Great idea!!!!!!
I couldn’t get my dignity back …
So, where is the video???
Now it mysteriously appears. Very cute trick.
I wanted to sincerely thank you for your generous help. You were the answer to my prayers. I pulled my very expensive earring out. I almost had a heart attack when it happened. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
looks pretty good, but wonder if there is any danger while sucking up flammable sewer gasses into an electric vac motor?!
Several people have wondered the same thing. Fortunately, I’ve never heard from a single person who has had a sewer gas meets motor problem.
My hunch is that the design of a Shop-Vac keeps the stuff that gets sucked up (dirt, water, etc) completely separate from the electric motor. If not, the motors wouldn’t last too long.
No danger with the sewer gases. Mythbusters tried all ways to cause an explosion and it is safe was the conclusion.
Hi ,
I am showering & all of a sudden the bar of soap I am using fell of the shower drain can your method also do the trick on this one??Thanks
Unfortunately, this doesn’t work for retrieving jewelry partially ground up in the disposer
Wow! i was able to retrieve my wife’s $20,000 diamond ring after I dropped it down there just to see if this really worked, and it really does!
OMG, you did that as an experiment? I am glad it worked for your sake.
Patricia, I have the feeling Jimmy was joking : /
PLEASE, Jimmy say I am right!!!!
good way to get a string through electric pipe to pull new wire
to pull electric wire suck a string with something small attached pro use
Thank you so much! I got my diamond earing back and i think you saved my marriage!!!!
OK. That is total genius. LOVE you for that idea, mmmmwa!!
I saw a fireman rescue a little kitty cat that fell down into a sewer pipe with this method. The fireman just put the mouth of the vaccum down on the top of the kitty’s head and brought it right up to the top . It was meowing pretty loud when she got to the top. Great work…
I need to retrieve my tiny gold earring from the bathroom sink. Don’t have a shop vac, but have an upright vacuum with a hose attachment. Please explain the risk of electrocution with a regular vac? Thanks so much.
Cynthia
He’s cute, smart and practical! He needs his own show.
How did he get the stopper out? I can’t be done unless the stopper is removed and you can’t do that unless the drain is removed.
Here are a couple of links to info that should help you get that stopper out.
http://bit.ly/stopper1
http://bit.ly/stopper2
Thanks for the tip, I just found out where all my hair has been going.
Where’s the video?
This really will work. In 1995 my wife dropped a pearl ear ring down the drain. This had been done before and I just removed the trap and retrieved it. This time we had a new house with all glued drain pipe which was not as easy. My wife called a friend who brought over a shop vac. On this occasion we used a piece of small rubber hose and taped it inside the regular vac hose. We turned it on put the hose down the drain and almost immediately we heard a click in the bottom of the vac tank , bingo success and no damage to the ear ring.
Wish I had seen this three years ago before I dropped a 1/2 carat diamond stud down the shower drain!!
Man! I wish I had thought of this when I dropped my $200 hard contact lens into the sink. Thanks for a great tip.
I LOVE YOU.
No video about retrieving something from the drain…Just a political message about Barrack Obama….Where is this great tip
Thank you very muchg for sharing. Awesome, never thought of using this. You’re a genius!!
What do you do if you’ve dropped your vacuum down the drain ?
Hook your most expensive jewelry to lot of wire to make an electromagnet, and pull it out that way.
Amazing! My cheapie disposal clogs from onion and potatoe pealings every once inawhile. It did it last night and I tried this with my shop vac. I didn’t think it would pull the pealings out past the bottom grate on the cuter area of the disposal but VOILA! up they came. No moving all the @@#$% under the sink and taking the pipes apart. –Now, what would you do to take showr soap/body oil scum from shower glass? Muratic acid won’t cut it w/o etching the glass.
SMART and well shown! Thanks!!!
My wife dropped her $30K ring down the shower drain and this trick got it back! Thanks! Worked like a charm!
wow what a genius. why hasn’t anyone else thought of this before? BECAUSE NOT EVERYONE HAS A SHOPVAC LAYING AROUND THE HOUSE, that’s why.
will it retreive a mechanical pencil?
Great advice! Now, do you have something for when kids drop shoes, hair accessories etc. down the TOILET?
Thank you so much, I wish I learn about your tip years ago. I have lost in drain many of my special jewelry. Well done, thumbs up!
WOW. WOW. WOW. It worked. You are a ROCKSTAR! Thank you!
After two weeks of not using the sink, trying channel locks, pipe wrenches, manpower, etc. I finally asked my Dad to go ahead and wash my birthstone earring down the sink. Instead, I found this and tried it with a vacuum cleaner and it worked…second time!!!
Thank you!
believe it or not, i just used that trick a few weeks back out of desperation. the thing is, i used a reg. vac. i think you can as long as it is something right where you can see it and before you run water in the sink. on the other hand, don’t listen to me. do as the man said.
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