The heavy-duty six foot TeletubeTM closet auger lets you clear stoppages just beyond the bowl. No need to lift the bowl, because it has three extra feet of cable telescoped into a guide tube until you need it After you've worked the first three feet into a bowl, you can go three feet farther simply by pressing a button and pulling out the crank handle The outer brass finish steel tube is 1-1/8" in diameter, and the octagonal inner guide tube is even tougher than the steel rod we use in our three foot closet augers Teletube weighs just a little more than other augers too.The patented Flexicore cable is made from two layers of tempered spring wire wrapped tightly around a 49-stand wire rope center It resists kinking and breaking yet has the right flexibility to get through low flow toilets ItaTMs so tough, itaTMs guaranteed for a full year.