Testing the World's Most Hated Tool
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Published 2022-04-27
Are universal sockets as bad as people say? We bought a bunch of Gator Grips to find out how useful they REALLY are?
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All Comments (21)
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What tool should we test next?
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Prospective buyer to hardware store owner:"Are these things any good?" "Hell, they must be, we sold 10 of them to one guy this week!"
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So the verdict seems to be that the Gator Grip does work on almost everything. Once.
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I know there are kind of goofy, but I do carry one in my motorcycle toolkit. I think it would be a better tool if the pins had a hexagonal profile instead of circular.
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I've never had a problem with them. But then again, I don't think it was a name brand GatorGrip. Also never really used it on anything needing a lot of torque. Just basic fixtures and whatnot, it works really well. At least in my opinion and experience. It's not a replacement, but it is a nice utility socket to have for those jobs that have a bunch of different sized nuts and bolts that don't need tons of torque. Definitely not for lugs, but I get that you guys are testing to the extremes.
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This saved me a trip to the store once after sitting in my tool box for years unused. It's good for low torque bolts if you cant find a socket or something. For big jobs, just use a standard socket
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My wife bought me one several years back. I thanked her and threw it in with my tools thinking it was junk and I would never use it. Well, several weeks ago I needed to remove a square head plug on a mower engine and nothing I had would fit to take it off. Found the gator grip socket and it worked perfectly. It won't replace a whole socket set but it's great to have for oddball stuff.
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Im an electrician and i use this a lot. In our trade we dont put a lot of torque on our screws or bolts. But it seems like when you do, youll just break it
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It works well enough for light duty work when you dont feel like grabbing the whole socket set
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I've had limited success with this tool. It's useful occasionally for jacked up bolts and things like ceiling hooks (as seen on tv!). But they are definitely not a do-it-all replacement tool by any stretch of the imagination.
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The gator grip is a pretty good “office tool.” I worked in a restaurant and we kept one in the “general tool drawer” because nobody was responsible enough to keep up with all the sockets in a set, but having one wrench with the gator grip on it in there worked pretty good for the one-off situations where we’d need to fix a filing cabinet or shelf in the closet or something small like that, because people seemed to at least be able to toss that single tool back in the drawer without losing it.
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Realistically this would be great for a couple times use on home hardware or a stripped nut or bolt. Can't replace your whole toolbox unfortunately.
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I’ve used one for years. I use it in a pinch, when there’s one or two things that would require a socket; anymore than that, it’s a trip to the truck. Having a gator in my kit saves me from carrying a whole set because socket work is an every once in awhile thing for me. I can’t imagine trying to do a lot of serious mechanical work with it.
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Oil Filter wrenches would be sick to see.. the three different kinds of them as up against each other
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I'm surprised he didn't immediately lose the socket after using it for the 10mm lol 😆
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I love having mine. But I don’t use it for heavy duty stuff. I pretty much only use it for those hooks or other abnormal fasteners that you normally wouldn’t be able to use a drill with.
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Why wouldn’t they make this but instead of pins, you have like 10 hex-shaped metal rings inside the socket. Then at least it would work on a bunch of different sized hexes pretty well.
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These are very useful for removing or installing odd shaped things like loops, rings, hooks, etc. I would not use this for regular nuts. At my aviation job this is actually the only tool that quickly removes the cargo net anchors in the baggage compartment of the Cessna 172 S. No socket fits those things, and removing them with the shaft of a screwdriver, or other such thing is a royal pain in the ass, as the eye bolt is mounted in a locking socket. I is just great for oddball applications.
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I love using mine. I use it everyday, never had a problem with it. I would highly recommend this if you need a good paper weight
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This is fascinating. I wasn't expecting the worst part of the product to be the durability. It's actually not even close to useless like I thought it would be.
