Alden Grabit Broken Bolt and Damaged Screw Exractors, 4-Piece Set

Alden Grabit Broken Bolt and Damaged Screw Exractors, 4-Piece Set | Glad I bought them

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	Alden Grabit Broken Bolt and Damaged Screw Exractors, 4-Piece Set Alden Alden average customer review:based on 31 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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Worked perfectly for me

I had an entire kitchen full of rusted and stripped screws, all of which needed to be removed and replaced.

The Grabit worked beautifully for me. It was merely a matter of adjusting the torque on my drill and working on each damaged screw slowly and deliberately.

24 out of 24 damaged screws removed ... I consider that a great product.

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Glad I bought them

So about year and a half ago I hung a 19 flatscreen on the wall in the den. And it was a horrible experience.

You see, whoever the "engineer" was that designed it should be flogged and their engineer credentials shoved up their...

You had to screw two 1/4×3" screws (those are pretty big) into a 2×4 stud in the wall using a hex key. A hex key is the hardest tool to work with, and stripped out the head of the screw about 1/4" away from being tight. That's after pre-drilling the hole. So the whole mount has been loose all this time. And you can't undo it because the hex key stripped out the head. The words coming out of my mouth at the time would have made a truck driver blush.

So it finally came time that I wanted to fix it by doing it right and replace the crappy screws they sent with proper lag bolts you'd install with a socket wrench.

So I bought the Grabit screw extractors. Sure they're late night TV fodder, but figured I'd give it a shot, as the set was cheaper than individual screw extractors at Home Depot.

And they worked wonderfully.

I had those crappy screws removed in about 5 seconds.

Then using a proper method of a socket wrench had the whole thing remounted in about 2 minutes instead of the half hour I spent the first time cussing and yelling.

Anyways, the set of Grabits are [........], and every tool kit should have a set.

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Not As Good As Hoped

After snapping a few deck screws last summer I thought they might be handy to have a set of ez-outs. My fist annoyance was they were shipped by the "AsSeenOnTVGuys" with insufficient postage. So I left the postman the 22 cents and got them the next day.

With no immediate need I tested them by driving a few screws into some pine & cedar deck boards & purposely striping the heads. Following the direction I drilled out the head with the left hand bit and the switched to the cone end to extract the screw applied some pressure, no luck. So after experimenting I found I had to put a lot pressure the drill & go as slow as possible; best done by using my old cordless drill with a half charged battery. I had almost as much luck with the left hand drill end.

In the end they do work but you may still have to work at it.

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