Alden Pro Grabit Review: Removing stripped screws

admin — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:23:34 +0000

A while ago I purchased a stainless steel allen head bolt kit to replace the crusty screws on my bike. I never actively set out to replace every bolt in one sitting, it made more sense to replace bolts as I removed them, if and when I removed them. Like many who work on these old Honda CBs, I came across a few stubborn screws that wouldn’t come out and eventually became stripped to the point where no impact driver could turn them, so last week I bought one of those broken bolt and damaged screw extractor bits.

Best money I ever spent.

I wish I had made a small movie illustrating the process, it was unbelievable how simple and fast it was to extract all my rusty stripped bolts. The Alden proGrabit is phenomenal.

I won’t go into details but the bit has two ends, one for drilling out the head and the other for gripping the hollowed hole and turning it out. Each stripped screw literally took 3 seconds to extract. Needless to say I was impressed and will never bother with an impact driver again with these old rusty screw heads.

These two on the left hand side cover were particularly crusty. They came out in 3 seconds flat.

The obligatory cafe racer stainless steel allen head shot…. you get the idea… looks real sharp. Now that I can remove the side covers maybe I’ll polish them up one of these days when I’m bored and I have some cash to buy a polishing wheel.

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Alden Pro Grabit Review: Removing stripped screws