Jones Stephens J44100 Plumbing-Tools, 1-Inch, Steel

This is an awesome tool. It saved me time and money not to mention the headache I would have had breaking open the wall to replace the wye fitting. This thing cut through the 3" pipe like a hot knife through butter and left a nice clean hole with a snug fit for the new pipe. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!Universal Mike - 30 years+ Professional Handyman

Needed to clear out an old toilet flange from a 4” pipe. I thought this was what the doctor ordered but the 4” socket saver makes a 4.5” hole in whatever you are drilling. :-(

Saved hours of work, cleaned out a schedule 40 pvc pipe fitting for reuse, would buy again if I lost it

Perfect for plumbing repairs by professional plumbers!

Makes old sockets reusable.

My review is for the 3-inch socket saver. I imagine that, due to the nature of the product, the difficulty of getting the cut precise increases as you increase the size (ie: ½-inch being easiest and 4-inch being hardest). I bought this because the toilet closet flange broke to the point where it could not be fixed with metal rings or other types of easy fixes. When trying to remove the closet flange from the 3-inch drain pipe via hammer and chisel, I was unable to properly remove the flange from the pipe. I found that there was no sufficient length of 3-inch pipe to cement a new connector to. From the toilet, it went: Flange ( a connector) > 90° elbow ( a connector) > 45° elbow (a connector) > Wye (a connector). So without cutting out the Wye and re-coupling several pipes and connections (sawing up more floor, more headache, etc.), I looked into my options. I tried melting the 90° elbow out of one of the connections with a heat gun. That worked, but it deformed/expanded the 3-inch pipe to the point where I couldn't get a reliable connection. That's when I found this and it answered the big question: how do I inexpensively get a fresh connection to cement a new pipe/connector to?Well, I successfully drilled out the pipe that was cemented in the 45° elbow. However, it is very tough to keep this perfectly straight the whole way through and when you aren't straight, you get minor ridges in the connector which may prevent a secure bond. One wish for this product would be a deeper guide. The guide is basically two welded washers. If it was deeper, it would be much less prone to wobbling. I wasn't confident that, with the cut ridges, I would have a reliable connection, so I want to both big box hardware stores to see what I could do to give me piece of mind. The Fernco rubber couplings seemed like the right choice, but they were only pipe-to-pipe connections in store and I needed connector to connector. It turns out that Fernco makes them, but they aren't readily available locally. I got one online, cemented my PVC connections and tightened the Fernco. Now I have confidence that if the pipe weld fails, the Fernco will back it up.The GOOD:• This can be a headache saver for someone that doesn't want to rip up floor/walls/ceilings to replace PVC pipe. PVC is cheap but getting to it can be expensive.• The build quality is solid and is priced well.The BAD (or iffy):• Difficult to keep perfectly aligned through the entirety of the cut.My recommendation• Get this and get a Fernco 3 in. x 3 in. PVC Plastic Socket to Plastic Socket Flexible Coupling - Model # 1060-3 and you will have a reliable PVC connector to connector bond. Also, use a corded drill with some heft.

I was saved by this as a 3/4 pipe broke near a pvc ball valve in a tight area. I will be keeping this on my truck!

It fits into a male 3" which is kind of worthless. I need it to fit into a 3" female so I can shave the male piece out and put a new one in. Now I just have a tool that can clean a 3" male pipe.

There are higher quality socket savers but they are 5 times more expensive. For home or DIY use this will get you out of a tight spot for sure. Not sure how it would hold up with regular use in a professional setting but I only needed it for home use.

Super ça va bien

There is nothing to dislikeBest investment I’ve made on a plumbing tool saves time and money

You might want to check the cut on a test pipe before doing the real job. I found it to be a little too big (Australian sewerage pipes) so I had to grind 2mm off the cutting blade otherwise it would not have left enough material on the female joiner to provide the new joint with any real strength. It didn't take long to get it to the right size and then it worked brilliantly!!!

Incredible how rare these tools are, I've been to any store appropriate for plumbing (any and all suppliers) and until very recently I've only seen one for 1.5" pipe and it was like $150, I certainly won't use it often enough to need to spend that, but a 3" in commercial it's already cheaper than the coupling I'm reusing.For some reason it's also very hard to get on amazon, I wanted other sizes but they won't ship to my location (in a major city!), anyway the couple of times I've used this it was perfect