Whisket Drain Cleaner
The late J. George Field, co-founder of Big Iron Drilling Ltd. invented and patented the Whisket Drain Cleaner in the late 1970’s.
It is a very simple and effective way to unplug a sink in a home or unplug a bath tub drain or any drain in the house. The principle behind the drain cleaner is to use a sand blast a drain using a dissolvable abrasive and flushing it through with water. If sand was put through into a drain and then flushed out, it would plug up and it would not work.
However, by using certain type of special salt that’s easy to acquire, the drain gets sand blasted and flushed out under pressure with water supplied from the household water supply.
It has an excellent commercial application. You can go into hotel or an apartment building and clean all the drains in the whole building in a relatively short period of time and do it very effectively and economically.
Ordinarily drains are cleaned by using a snake or dismantling the plumbing to remove what is plugging the drain.
With the Whisket Drain Cleaner, a certain amount of salt is driven through the plugged drain with the dissolvable abrasive and it cleans the drain.
Many of these units were distributed and sold over the years and are still have a very particle use because of this very simple and sound principle.