Danco 86712 Moen Cartridge Puller, Pack of 1, Silver

I have worked on plumbing for about 50 years!! Yes I'm older but experienced and honestly when I first watched the videos and looked over the old cartridges I thought oh boy! Nothing worse than breaking stuff or leaking stuff or call the plumber expensive stuff. This tool is a must have especially for the price. It's simple to use. Steps....unscrew the screw in the handle out most of the way, rotate the indexed tabs on the tool up with the cartridge in the wall, start turning the screw into where the handle for the faucet used to go, turn the big nut on the Danco tool clockwise. The point here is to let the nut do the work on the tool insuring you the the long screw in the handle seated into the end of the cartridge where the old faucet handle went.As you turn the big nut on the tool you will find you will need channel locks or a crescent wrench and I cannot stress this enough don't be in a big hurry to pull it out of the valve body. Slow and steady and you should not break a thing. I have a 22 year old house and this is the first time I replaced the faucet cartridges!! I should have replaced them the minute they were getting hard to turn, pull and push. This tool will insure that you shouldn't break anything...slow and steady.Finally not getting this tool drops you back to raw muscle power and frankly so often if you have to pull something so hard that you're just about to pull the pipes out of the wall ( I saw a video where the guy was almost there with pulling stuff out of the wall but...the cartridge finally let go) you've got a problem. This tool insured the job was done right and nothing was broken and left in the wall that is part of the valve. If you want a nightmare of a plumbing job don't get this, break something off in the wall, and find a very expensive plumbers bill which probably will set you back $300 or more if your'e lucky!!!The tool is excellent and very robust, not a piece of junk but a solid piece of metal!!

This worked perfectly and despite the comments regarding its material being aluminum vs steel and seemed very well made and did exactly what I needed. Note once securely attached turn side to side and not just grip and pull. Still sturdy enough afterward for future use

Really helped with pulling the old cartridge out of the fixture. Much cheaper than the brand name one, worked really well.

I ordered this with a Moen 1222 replacement cartridge. I did not know whether my old one would be stuck but I didn't want to get into changing it out. It works pretty simply.Fit the open end of the puller over the old (and already install cartridge) by lining up the screw at the end of the puller to the screw hole at the end of the installed old cartridge. Once you have that screw attached and snug (but not too tight), you will need to turn the big nut on the puller with a large crescent wrench or medium-ish pipe wrench. Turn the wrench clockwise. As it tightens it slowly pulls out the old cartridge with each crank of the nut until it eventually pops free.I may have been able to pull my old one without it simply by attaching a large set of pliers to the end and pulling real hard but using this puller seemed safer as it was more controlled than simple yanking it out. I would have worried I would have pulled to hard and damaged the pluming within the wall or possibly the surrounding tile.

I’m an amateur and this cartridge remover made the job easy. Worth the investment high quality will keep it for future use.

This is the real deal worked well and easy to use.Did the job stress free.

I had to replace a moen 1222 cartridge from my tub/shower enclosure. I knew it would probably be tough because it's been there for about 13 years and our water is very hard. The extractor was able to move the cartridge out about 1/4 of an inch and then it became too difficult to move. I applied heat and a penetrating oil and patiently worked with the extractor to keep pressure on the cartridge. It took almost an hour to get the cartridge out. Unfortunately, the screw in the extractor broke about 15 minutes into the operation making it totally useless. The picture and the description for this product is misleading. As others have stated, it's almost all aluminum with the exception of the aforementioned screw. To make matters worse, the screw itself seems to be a not too common size. I thought I could just go the the local hardware store, (ACE), and replace it. I measured the diameter at 11/64's but the thread pitch is just a hair off of 24 threads per inch. I don't have metric thread gauges so I couldn't determine if that's the issue, but nothing at the hardware store matched the screw. I can only surmise that the manufacturer wants one to keep buying replacements. I am going to look for a better quality product and I would suggest that for others as well.

Needed to extract a Moen 1222 cartridge that had been in place for almost 30 years, in a house with very hard water. I expected a battle getting it out, with this tool and a good crescent wrench it came right out. NOTE that after reading multiple reviews questioning the tool's durability, I took the precaution of putting a 1" ID steel washer in between the brass valve housing and the tool so the push nut would have a smooth surface to ride against and the brass wouldn't dig into the aluminum of the tool.