Gator Grip King Socket The Original Professional Grade Self-Adjusting Universal Socket with over 450FT Pounds of Power. Self-Adjusts for shape and size as well as Standard and Metric Application

So, I already have one of these, the smaller one (got it for christmas some years back). We were doing smooth wire fence where we were installing round eye ring threaded hardware into wooden posts. Normally you pre-drill and use something like a large crescent wrench or a screwdriver thru the eye of the hardware. This socket allowed me to get my cordless DeWalt 3/8" impact after pre-drilling and just rattle the eye lags into the posts. When you are doing this all day, it makes a real difference, probably saving me 5 minutes per post. The socket marks the eye because the steel on the lag is softer than the driving pins in the socket, but what a godsend! My only wish (as ridiculous as this sounds) would be for them to make an even bigger socket or something silly like an oval socket that accommodated very wide objects.... also, they need to make a "deep socket" version of both as the pins only go in about 1" due to some sort of plastic carrier inside. Solution, make a longer socket? Eh? No complaints, though, great for driving eye lags, hook lags, wing nuts, square head bolts, etc.

Love this i still use it 10 years later havent broken yet

All around it is a good socket but it really does need to be able to accept a more raised bolt situation, gator sockets never seem to have enough pin travel to be useful on anything than a shallow bolt situation.

Maybe Someday I'll Actually Use It? I bought this product with another item and got a good deal on the purchase of both. Even though it seems to be well made, I don't think I would have bought it at full price simply because I don't use it that much. It was bought as one of those "Oh, that's an interesting tool, maybe someday I'll have a need for it" purchases. What? you never done that? Yeah right, we all do. As it turns out, I was right. I am writing this review several years after I actually purchased the item and have only used it a time or two. Overall, a good product, but more of an impulse item then something you'll actually use. Still, it has come in handy a time or two and since I already had it's smaller brother, it seemed like a good purchase at the time. Giving it a three star rating ONLY because I hardly use it, NOT because of the quality.

Works great for small items or when other tools may not be available.....

Delivered at the time expected and product was exactly as I hoped and expected.

This socket is a joke. I had to lol at how easily it failed and that after all my years working on things that I thought this might solve my problem. It fell apart like it was made of glass. I hadn't felt this gullible and stupid after a purchase in a long time. It does, however, deserve the mandatory one star because it made me laugh at myself.

A quality tool. I have had the smaller Gator Grip socket for years, and the King is certainly substantial, and justifies the higher price. I had a unique challenge: an exterior shutoff tap, 18” down a 4” shaft, where the tap handle had corroded off, but the valve worked fine - I just couldn’t grip it to turn the tap on or off - the King Socket works great for this type of application, and I don’t know of any other tool that could solve that problem so easily and inexpensively.