Bolt Wizard review

[motofool33]

Saw this Thread Wizard advertised on spike tv. And ordered sae n metric versions.



Bolts after using product


And one more


Alot easier then clamping bolt in vise and running my wire wheel around it.

Made in USA

 

[firworks]

What is it? Like... a wire wheel sandwiched between plastic plates that you thread the bolt through? It does look like it's shining those bolts right up so I guess it works.

 

[motofool33]

Yea basically a wire wheel cleanup jig. Stick the bolt in hit it with drill or impact driver in 2 seconds it comes out as pictured

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[KraftwerkMk1Jetta]

That;s actually kind of neat!

 

[evintho]

Vise-grips and the wire wheel on my bench grinder. Been cleaning up bolts that way for years. I'll spend my money elsewhere.

 

[fatfillup]

Wow, didn't come up on google under bolt wizard.

I could see that as handy if you had to clean a lot of bolts, maybe doing resto work. To do a bolt here and there, the wire wheel should suffice.

 

[woody 73]

I like the idea and give it a thumbs up...

But like evintho said a simple bench grinder works just as good and like him I too have been doing it that way for many years.

 

[motofool33]

Wow, didn't come up on google under bolt wizard.

I could see that as handy if you had to clean a lot of bolts, maybe doing resto work. To do a bolt here and there, the wire wheel should suffice.

your right its thread wizard sorry

http://www.threadwizard.us/about.html

i dont have a bench grinder yet so i spent many a night with tired arms from cleaning up bolts for restore projects and this makes it easier on tired hands.

 

[pendragon1998]

It doesn't throw the bolt across the shop into Neverland like when your grip slips on the wire wheel on the bench grinder...where's the fun in that?

 

[anndel]

So it's kinds like a thread follower, neat.

 

[PugetDude]

Did you order it on late-nite TV after one too many eggnogs?

 

[thebeekeeper1]

It's certainly safer than using fingers to hold one on a wire wheel, but obviously you can't do the head of the bolt.

 

[fatfillup]

your right its thread wizard sorry

http://www.threadwizard.us/about.html

i dont have a bench grinder yet so i spent many a night with tired arms from cleaning up bolts for restore projects and this makes it easier on tired hands.

Here's a link to the video. I like the idea especially if you have lots of bolts to do at one time


http://www.threadwizard.us/

I like that someone is innovative. Don't know that i would buy one but I don't clean a lot of bolts and have 3 bench grinders.

 

[jerseykat1]

That's pretty cool.. I need something like that for in the car.. Cleaning the threads on bolts before removing the nuts often makes the nut actually come off and not get stuck and force me to use a torch.

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[truckdriver]

Bench grinder won't be much help in the field or on the side of the road. That is where this could be useful.

 

[upgrading]

That looks decent.
Not high priced and a repair kit if you wear it out.

 

[Thread Wizard]

Motofool33, thank you for your purchase and review. While you can clean bolts with solvents, wire brushes or wire wheels on a bench grinder none are as safe or fast as the Thread Wizard. We can clean a handful of bolts in the time it takes to address one on the wire wheel. The tool was invented by 40 year master mechanic Gary Taylor after a wire wheel grabbed a bolt from his hand and shot it towards his face, nearly hitting him in the eye socket. The handle is high quality ABS plastic, the brush is high quality carbon steel and the plates are stainless steel. All our parts are sourced from and made in the USA and our tool is manufactured completely in the USA. The tool can be rebuilt with our repair kit but in the years we have been using our prototype, we have yet to wear out the initial wheel after thousands of bolts. A trick to extend the life of the wire wheel is to index the wheel and when it begins to wear, pivot it to expose fresh wire to each hole.

 

[MrGiggles]

Definitely cool, one of the better recent inventions that I've seen.

I'll stick with a die grinder and wire wheel though. Never really cared for the bench grinder, too easy for the bolts to get away from you.