What is this tool used for...

[Mikea57]

I used to know but ran across it today while reorganizing stuff out in the garage and can't remember. The head of it springs back down I let go of it. I'm pretty sure it was my Dad's but he's not around any longer, so I cant ask him.
TIA!

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[didit]

That's for plumbing. Useful for reaching up to remove and install faucets. I just used mine for putting a new dishwasher in. To reverse it just flip it over the other way. Mine is a little different and extends also. Handy tool to have.

 

[jimindm]

Plumbing basin wrench. You use it to reach up behind fixtures. If you ever needed to change the sprayer hose on your kitchen faucet, about impossible with out one.

 

[RTM]

Just pulled mine out, gonna take it to my daughter’s house soon to tighten some kitchen fittings.

 

[Milton Shaw]

RTM watch tightening fittings as a lot of faucets now have the nut on the faucet on a stub of 3/8 copper tube. You have to use two wrenches or you twist them off. So look carefully.

 

[RTM]

^^^^^ Bastahds, I can barely see that far under this sink, guess I should throw a few fixed wrenches in the bag. Thanks for the heads up.

 

[sqyards]

Great tool but I hate plumbing

 

[rlitman]

RTM watch tightening fittings as a lot of faucets now have the nut on the faucet on a stub of 3/8 copper tube. You have to use two wrenches or you twist them off. So look carefully.

^^^^^ Bastahds, I can barely see that far under this sink, guess I should throw a few fixed wrenches in the bag. Thanks for the heads up.

No, the copper tube stub makes things MUCH easier, because the fitting is visible below the bottom of the sink. If you've got those, you don't need a basin wrench.

 

[RTM]

Oh, I was thinking 1” below the deck. My last install had approximately 6” stubs, and that was nice, for a change, for a plumbing job.

I actually need to tighten the mount on an air break for this job, not the fittings.

 

[rlitman]

Oh, I was thinking 1” below the deck. My last install had approximately 6” stubs, and that was nice, for a change, for a plumbing job.

I actually need to tighten the mount on an air break for this job, not the fittings.

Nah, they're not that evil. The stubs are primarily there so you can fit everything through a single hole, so one will also always be a little longer than the other. But they also know full well how much using a basin wrench *****. Nobody wants to be on their backs in a cabinet, with a dripping dirty drain by their mouth.

If that air gap uses a nut, then yeah, that can be a pain. A better setup is where you loosely screw an oval (or horseshoe) shaped "nut" over the stem that passes through the deck. And through that nut is a screw that presses up on the underside of the counter that's easy to reach straight on with a screwdriver from below.

 

[RTM]

My first single post faucet had those tubes, instead of the 3 port system. I was in love, a designer that listened to the cursing of three generations of plumbers and us wannabes.


I am Not so lucky. Looks like about a 1-3/4” nut. Got the adjustable plumbing wrench (long straight jaws on a crescent type adjuster) in the car and ready to drop off tomorrow . The soP dispenser fitting broke too, the threaded piece on the fitting broke, bottle survived.

 

[sberry]

Basin wrench.
In this case multi purpose tubing wrench,,, ha