Grip edge extractor set

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Seeing if any BITOGers have any experience with Grip Edge extractor sets.

I see these grip edge sets marketed heavily on Facebook, and the do a impressive video using the product. I am also aware stage things to perform certain ways.

My main use for the extraction set is to remove rusty bed bolds on a pickup bed. My current plan is to weld nuts on the bolts, but if this extraction set worked liked the video implies, I might purchase this set.

Thoughts?
https://www.gripedgetools.com/products/14pc-g-fors-extractor-set?

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I'm betting your welded on nut works better. Heat does wonders.
Not to mention their metal looked new and was not rusty.
 
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I have a set and they work but would not be my first choice for bed bolts.

Without knowing your application, most pickup beds bolt to the frames with long through bolts and clip nuts. When I remove a bed if the bolts are seized or the nuts are spinning the easiest way I have found to deal with it is grind the head off the bolts, lift the bed then cut the bolt off flush with the frame and remove the remnants of the nut and bolt. The hardware is trash anyway, all I need to do is get it out of the way. Drilling or welding is far slower
 
If you get aftermarket bolts and the clip nuts are mechanical lock nuts, just run a tap through 'em and delete that imperfect thread if it puts up a fight.

My experience with the cheap hardware is that the mechanical lock is too tight to even fully seat the bolt without rounding the torx or hex head.

I haven't used the extractors in question, sorry.
 
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If you get aftermarket bolts and the clip nuts are mechanical lock nuts, just run a tap through 'em and delete that imperfect thread if it puts up a fight.

My experience with the cheap hardware is that the mechanical lock is too tight to even fully seat the bolt without rounding the torx or hex head.

I haven't used the extractors in question, sorry.
Yes, I purchased the Dorman aftermarket bolt and clip set from RockAuto. My plan is to put neversieze on the bolts/ clips.
 
I have a set and they work but would not be my first choice for bed bolts.

Without knowing your application, most pickup beds bolt to the frames with long through bolts and clip nuts. When I remove a bed if the bolts are seized or the nuts are spinning the easiest way I have found to deal with it is grind the head off the bolts, lift the bed then cut the bolt off flush with the frame and remove the remnants of the nut and bolt. The hardware is trash anyway, all I need to do is get it out of the way. Drilling or welding is far slower
Four of the eight bolts are seized. The bed is older (Ford F350 2002) and has a bedliner. Watching youtube videos on the cut the bolt method, all the cutting was done at the top of the bed, which caused minor imperfections in the bed. With a 22 year old bedliner- I didn't want to have even small cuts in the bedliner.

Thanks for the tip to cut the bolt at the frame/ under the bed.
 
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