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

Worked as it should. Good tool.

I was dealing with an old Moen brass shower faucet valve that needed replaced. The brass valve cartridge was held tight by corrosion in the brass faucet body and needed to come straight out cleanly. If you are replacing an old cartridge, you probably will face this. If you don't use a tool like this, you have a high risk of damaging the old faucet body or even breaking loose a pipe/fitting. That would turn a moderately simple DIY repair into something much more difficult and expensive (possibly a plumber visit, or needing to get into the wall area around a shower mixer/valve assembly). This tool is all metal, simple to operate and worth the money (even if you only need it once). It should last for multiple repairs if you have other old Moen shower or sink faucets using the 1200, 1222 or 1225 valve cartridge.

This thing did the job. I didn't see how it could be done without such a puller.

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.