Neat tool for getting what you dropped in the $%#@! bilge

[C_Spray]

If you've never dropped anything into the bowels of your bilge, you probably don't own a boat. The rest of us know that virtually nothing on a boat is magnetic, and we've all stood on our heads, scraped up our arms, and dang near gotten stuck retrieving (or trying to retrieve) some crucial part that we need to get back in order to get home or go boating.

I bought this from McMaster-Carr (They DO sell almost everything!!!) for $41.77 - Item #57465A54: "Lighted Retrieving Tool, Claw Style, 42" Overall". It has a short flexible section about 2/3 of the way down, but the other sections of it are rigid, so it doesn't act like a wet noodle. The claws open up to about 5/8" by 3/4". It even has a pistol grip.

This probably means that I won't drop anything into the bilge for the next several years, in which case is was more than worth the money....

If nothing else, it will be great for pinching people out of arm's length.

[cigdaze]

Cool deal. I have one of those grabbers (no light on mine) and they're an indispensable, must have.

[OldSchool]

Cool deal. I have one of those grabbers (no light on mine) and they're an indispensable, must have.

Me too!!!!

[Geronimo36]

I like the light, thanks!

[DaveP]

My protologist has something like that in his office.... LOL!

[C_Spray]

My protologist has something like that in his office.... LOL!

When your eyeballs light up from the inside, he's gone too far.

[Ted]

Me too!!!!

I had one till Craig borrowed it

[Tony]

About once a year I pick up a dozzen of those beefy telescopic magnets from Napa. I find bilge fishing somewhat rewarding, you find **** down there that you forgot that you had.

[old377guy]

Mine is in the top of my tool box, no light though - may be time to upgrade

[Scarab KV]

Have one minus the light. Also one thats telescopic with a magnet on the end. Both are must haves. Seem to get used alot.

[OldSchool]

I had one till Craig borrowed it

I've got two of them if you need to borrow one neighbor!!!

[LaughingCat]

My protologist has something like that in his office.... LOL!

MarylandMark got one from an Asian guy

[FastDonzi]

Sh*t, I have found some of my tools 3 years later when a boat Came back for motor repairs, Pulled the motors and there was my test light and wrench (Replaced a long time before)

[Blue Oval]

The auto term is mechanics fingers! I have one in my boat! Also good when the ladies put bad things in your porta potti!

[Slandrew]

Have one minus the light. Also one thats telescopic with a magnet on the end. Both are must haves. Seem to get used alot.

Magnet good as long as it's not stainless!Nice tool the light is a good thing

[Trim'd Up]

The auto term is mechanics fingers! I have one in my boat! Also good when the ladies put bad things in your porta potti!

I'll be damned... I've always called them motherf#cker savers.

[tommymonza]

My buddys 53 sailboat devloped a really bad oil leak on the old Ford Lehman when a freeze plug rusted out on one of the oil galleries. After fixing the problem i spent a day way down in the sump area of the bilge cleaning 38 years of grime and 3 inches of compacted dirt.

In one chunk of dirt i found an old large Sears Craftsmen adujustable that the last 2 inches of the handle and the adjustable mechanism were rotted away from electrolisis .

Next trip i had to make to Sears in KeyWest to get another tool i brought it in to them to just show it to them. Guy comes back with a new one and says looks like the adjustable mechanism failed Here ya go.

[Blue Thunder]

If nothing else, it will be great for pinching people out of arm's length.

We will be keeping an even closer eye on you and crew than before, this year

[MarylandMark]

If you've never dropped anything into the bowels of your bilge, you probably don't own a boat.

Or upgraded to outboards..

[MacGyver]

In one chunk of dirt i found an old large Sears Craftsmen adujustable that the last 2 inches of the handle and the adjustable mechanism were rotted away from electrolisis .

Next trip i had to make to Sears in KeyWest to get another tool i brought it in to them to just show it to them. Guy comes back with a new one and says looks like the adjustable mechanism failed Here ya go.

Thats what I like about having Craftsman tools. They'll replace almost anything (except a torque wrench with a broken locking collar ).