{ "id": "flexible-grabber-claw-tool-90cm", "sku": "flexible-grabber-claw-tool-90cm", "title": "Flexible Grabber Claw Tool 90cm", "slug": "flexible-grabber-claw-tool-90cm", "price": 48.99, "currency": "SGD", "availability": "in_stock", "category": "drain-snakes", "category_label": "Drain Snakes & Augers", "tags": [], "colors": [], "materials": [], "dimensions": null, "weight": "0.1 kg", "images": [ "https://drains.asia/dropship-images/drain-snakes/flexible-grabber-claw-tool-90cm/main-flexible-grabber-claw-tool-90cm.jpg", "https://drains.asia/dropship-images/drain-snakes/flexible-grabber-claw-tool-90cm/flexible-grabber-claw-tool-90cm-2.jpg", "https://drains.asia/dropship-images/drain-snakes/flexible-grabber-claw-tool-90cm/flexible-grabber-claw-tool-90cm-3.jpg", "https://drains.asia/dropship-images/drain-snakes/flexible-grabber-claw-tool-90cm/flexible-grabber-claw-tool-90cm-4.jpg", "https://drains.asia/dropship-images/drain-snakes/flexible-grabber-claw-tool-90cm/flexible-grabber-claw-tool-90cm-5.jpg", "https://drains.asia/dropship-images/drain-snakes/flexible-grabber-claw-tool-90cm/flexible-grabber-claw-tool-90cm-6.jpg", "https://drains.asia/dropship-images/drain-snakes/flexible-grabber-claw-tool-90cm/flexible-grabber-claw-tool-90cm-7.jpg" ], "description_short": "A slim 1.1cm bendable stainless steel shaft with a spring-loaded four claw head, worked by a simple squeeze handle, so you can grip and lift small items from drains, gaps and cavities without taking anything apart.", "description": "The problem nobody warns you about\n\nA bathroom sink does not block overnight. It gets a little slower every week until one morning you are standing in two inches of water with a razor in your hand, wondering when this happened.\n\nThe cause is almost always the same. Hair goes down the plughole, catches on the crossbar or the stopper rod, and starts collecting soap, toothpaste and skin cells. Within a few months there is a grey rope of the stuff sitting in the first few centimetres of the waste. It is right there. You could almost touch it. You just cannot get a hand, a plunger or a bottle brush to it.\n\nThat is the gap a flexible grabber claw tool 90cm long fills. The shaft is thin enough to go through the plughole, long enough to reach the trap, and flexible enough to curve around the bend. At the end, four claws open and close on a squeeze, so instead of pushing the blockage deeper you take hold of it and pull it out.\n\nThe second job this tool does is retrieval. A screw rolls off the bench. A ring goes down the drain. A phone charger tip falls into the gap behind a desk. All of those are the same problem in a different shape, and the same tool solves them.\n\nHow the tool actually works\n\nThere are three parts and no mystery to any of them.\n\nThe shaft is stainless steel, 90cm long and 1.09cm across. It bends when you bend it and holds the shape, which matters more than it sounds. A rigid rod cannot follow a P trap. A completely floppy cable cannot be steered. A shaft that bends and stays bent lets you shape it to the job before you feed it in, then nudge it further once it is inside.\n\nAt the working end sit four claws. At your end is a plastic handle. Press the handle and the claws spread open. Let go and they close. That is the whole mechanism, which is why there is nothing to charge, nothing to wear out electrically, and nothing to assemble.\n\nFour claws rather than two or three is worth noting. Two claws act like tweezers, which is fine for flat objects and poor for round ones. Four claws close in from four directions, so a nut, a bead or a ball of wet hair gets surrounded rather than pinched. That is what stops things dropping halfway back up the pipe, which is the single most annoying thing that can happen on a retrieval job.\n\nThe whole tool weighs 100g. You can hold it steady with one hand for several minutes without your wrist complaining, which leaves the other hand free for a torch.\n\nWho this suits\n\nIf you own or rent a home with a bathroom, this earns its keep. Hair blockages are the most common drain problem there is, and this is the most direct fix for them.\n\nIt also suits anyone who works with small parts. Mechanics, bike builders, electricians, model makers and anyone who has ever dropped a tiny screw into an engine bay will understand immediately. A magnet only works on ferrous metal. A claw works on anything that fits between the jaws, which makes it a better small parts retriever in most mixed situations.\n\nParents find uses for it too. Toys, coins and hair clips end up in heating vents, behind radiators and down the side of car seats with remarkable consistency.\n\nFinally, it suits people who would rather not pour chemicals down the pipes. Caustic drain cleaners are hard on older pipework, hard on the environment and sometimes hard on skin. Mechanical removal has none of those downsides.\n\nChoosing the right tool for the job\n\nLength is the first thing to check. Ninety centimetres covers a basin, a bath, a shower and most kitchen sinks down to the trap and a little beyond. If your problem is further along the waste pipe, this will not reach it and you want a proper drain machine instead. Knowing which situation you are in saves a lot of frustration.\n\nDiameter is the second. At 1.09cm, this fits through the gaps in most shower grilles and through most plugholes without removing anything. If your drain cover has very fine slots, measure them first. The best shower drain cleaning tool is the one that actually fits your drain.\n\nThen there is the grip style. Claw tools, magnetic pick up tools and hooked snakes all do related jobs. A hooked plastic snake is cheap and good at dragging hair out, but it cannot hold an object, and it is disposable. A magnet is brilliant for steel screws and useless for a plastic cap or a hair clump. A four claw grabber covers both situations, which is why it tends to be the one that stays in the drawer long term.\n\nLast, think about where it lives. A tool you cannot find when you need it is no tool at all. This one is light and thin enough to hang on a hook in a utility cupboard, slide into a toolbox or coil loosely into a kitchen drawer.\n\nUsing it well\n\nWork slowly. Most of the mistakes people make come from rushing.\n\nStart by putting something down. An old towel or a bin bag beside the sink stops the mess spreading. What you pull out of a bathroom drain is not pretty.\n\nFeed the shaft in with the claws closed. When you hit resistance, that is usually the crossbar or the first bend. Rotate the tool slightly and ease past rather than shoving. Once you are into the clog area, press the handle to open the claws, push forward a centimetre or two, then release to close.\n\nPull back steadily. If the grip slips, you will feel it, and you simply go again. Three or four passes will usually clear a hair blockage completely. Running hot water afterwards flushes out the soap film that was holding it all together.\n\nFor retrieval in a dry space, a torch changes everything. Looking at what you are doing is worth far more than feeling your way. Where you cannot see, go by touch, open the claws past the object, then close and lift straight rather than at an angle.\n\nGloves are sensible for drain work. So is washing your hands properly afterwards, regardless of gloves.\n\nLooking after it\n\nSteel and standing water are not friends. The care routine is short.\n\nRinse the claw end and the part of the shaft that went into the drain under warm water. Add a drop of dish soap if the job was particularly grim. Work the handle a few times under the running water so the claw joints flush out.\n\nDry it properly. A tea towel over the shaft and a shake out of the claw head is enough. Then store it somewhere dry.\n\nStraighten the shaft before putting it away. Leaving a sharp kink in one place is what eventually causes a flexible shaft to fail, and a few seconds of straightening avoids that entirely.\n\nBefore the next job, squeeze the handle a couple of times to check the claws still open and close freely. If the action feels sticky, a rinse usually fixes it.\n\nThe short version\n\nHair clogs sit close to the plughole, and the fastest way to deal with them is to pull them out. This 90cm flexible claw tool is thin enough to get in, bendy enough to follow the pipe, and fitted with four claws that actually hold what they grab.\n\nIt doubles as a retrieval tool for screws, rings, caps and anything else that falls into a gap, including the non-metal items a magnet cannot help with. It weighs 100g, needs no batteries, and takes about two minutes to learn.\n\nIf your blockage is deep in the main line, you need bigger equipment. For everything within arm's reach plus a bit, this is the tool that saves you dismantling the trap.", "llm_summary": "The flexible grabber claw tool (model pick05) is a 90cm hand tool for retrieving small objects from drains and tight spaces. It has a stainless steel shaft measuring 89.92cm long and 1.09cm in diameter, a plastic handle, and a four claw head. Overall product dimensions are 89.92 x 1.09 x 1.09 cm and the weight is 100g. Pressing the handle opens the claws, releasing it closes them around the object. The shaft is flexible and can be bent to follow pipe bends and awkward gaps. The colour is listed as black and the shape as round. No batteries are required. Country of origin and warranty are not specified by the maker. Supplied as a single unit.", "returnable": true, "return_policy": "Voluntary 14-day change-of-mind returns in original condition, buyer pays return postage; your protection under the Consumer Protection (Fair Trading) Act 2003 for faulty goods is unaffected. Return postage on faulty goods is ours.", "shipping_profile": "standard", "warranty": null, "brand": "Drains Company", "gtin": null, "mpn": null, "condition": "new", "url": "https://drains.asia/flexible-grabber-claw-tool-90cm/", "canonical_url": "https://drains.asia/flexible-grabber-claw-tool-90cm/", "json_url": "https://drains.asia/api/products/flexible-grabber-claw-tool-90cm.json", "updated_at": "2026-10-12" }