Bob Baker admits he was a bit skeptical when his RIDGID customer rep suggested using a K-5208 sectional cable drain cleaning machine on an extremely difficult emergency job: a restaurant drainline clog so tough it snapped the cable on a large, powerful drum machine.
As it happened, no new cables were available on short notice and the restaurant was “up to its eyeballs in water,” as Baker puts it. So the veteran plumber — the owner of Baker Plumbing, Heating and Gasfitting in Calgary, Alberta — shifted to plan B, which was giving the K-5208 a shot.
“I was skeptical,” Baker
