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.
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02-26-2010 03:50 PM
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02-26-2010 04:07 PMCool deal. I have one of those grabbers (no light on mine) and they're an indispensable, must have.
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02-26-2010 04:35 PM
My protologist has something like that in his office.... LOL!
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02-26-2010 05:18 PM
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.
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02-26-2010 05:22 PM
Mine is in the top of my tool box, no light though - may be time to upgrade
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02-26-2010 09:42 PM
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)
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02-26-2010 11:16 PM
The auto term is mechanics fingers! I have one in my boat! Also good when the ladies put bad things in your porta potti!
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02-27-2010 11:52 AM
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.
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