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But stripped screws are legitimately hard to deal with and the GRABIT and Drill-Out are hardly panaceas. That might be true if the tools worked every time. It'll be the best $20 you ever put in your toolbox.' The rest is adspeak: 'No more frustration, no more hassles, no more wasted time. With the drill in reverse, we pulled the trigger. Instructions memorized, we bored out the damaged head with the cutting end, then flipped the bit and tightened the chuck on the grabber. The machine screws there were in pretty good shape, considering the installer had been a bit overzealous when torquing them into place. Our shining success story happened at the screen door. For problematic automotive nuts and bolts, you're probably better off using the classic candle-wax-as-thread-lubricant trick detailed here. The only other common problem was the tendency of the bits to 'walk,' especially on the narrow bolts on the lawnmower. We're a society that doesn't read directions-we're so excited, we want to use it right away.' Amen to that! Using the tool the proper way, the cutting end carved such a smooth cone that the grabbing end had difficulty trying to, well, GRAB IT.Īside: Veteran infomercial script writer John Miller, interviewed for the ASOTV feature in PM's February issue, said, 'My biggest concern is that people aren't reading the directions, not using the product properly, and then are not going to get desired result. But the first time around, the grabbing end's single tooth, similar to the protrusion on a Forstner bit, had an easier time biting into whatever mangled facets remained. We retested the right way after a closer inspection of the instructions. Take the hinge leaves and the stripped deck screws. But the funny thing is, the tool worked better when we had it backwards. The cutter carves a hole, you flip it around, and the extractor digs up the fastener. The GRABIT and Drill-Out are two-sided, with a cutting head on one end and an extracting head on the other.

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In the interest of full disclosure, we must confess that in our first tests, we mixed up the two ends of the tool. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play The Details: These tools went one for four-doesn't sound great, but when you're stuck with a fastener that's impossible to remove, getting even one out of there is better than nothing.

To be fair, there's no easy way to deal with a flush-driven stripped screw. Removing new steel screws from hinge leaves, pulling broken, rusted bolts from a lawnmower, extracting stripped galvanized screws from a screen door, and attempting to yank stripped decking screws from weather-beaten, pressure-treated lumber. 'If you can use a drill, you can use a GRABIT.' The Test: The Drill-Out does the same for broken bolts. Flip the tool around, drive it in reverse, and the extracting head bites the cone to remove the screw. Drill out the damaged area with a cone-shaped cutting end to form a divot. Well, not anymore!' The GRABIT damaged screw and bolt remover extracts problem fasteners in 10 seconds.

'If you've ever stripped a screw or broken off the head of a bolt, you know how frustrating that can be.