http://www.amazon.com/Uniburr-1816-Plus-Deburring-Small/dp/B00WIT9KJ8
Video in action: https://youtu.be/QaJlYwoUJlY
Great for race car builds... I like the idea of cutting all bolts to min safe length but never liked the unfinished look(even if done with a grinder, its never perfect).
Just would need a good way to refinish to keep corrosion/rust away. I guess if you did a lot at once you could send a bunch out for zinc plating?
That is cool but maybe China has made me jaded as I think $63 for that is crazy.
In reply to singleslammer:
Yes and no. While it does seem pricey, I have too many poor experiences with cheap Chinese steel that when you need something made to a stringent tolerance, you need to be willing to pay. Tools made in China are often cheap for reasons other than just cheap labor.
now that there is cool
I have one at my desk that I have tested out. It works well and made in USA is a plus. It may go down in price after it has been in the market awhile. It really only takes a second or two to put a nice chamfer on the end of a bolt.
The review on amazon said it wouldn't touch 8.8 bolts but they must have been using it wrong. It cuts through a grade 8 very easily, the trick is to use as slow rpm as possible.
The small size is $43 on Amazon
The one linked is a plus with the additional coating. The one I have is the cheaper standard which works well.
Concerns me that their web page is dead.
Tool 1816 is $63 Tool 1818 is $43
Both are the same size. The facebook page says they have a new and improved model, but doesn't describe it. Is it the higher number, or the higher price? Dunno.
Facebook page warns about using the tool slowly.
The 1816 is just the 1818 with an additional coating, supposedly 92 Rockwell hardness for the coating.
I never knew I needed that!
Noga has you covered even a handle for the deburrer and other options of deburring.
92 rockwell tool steel? WTF?
I can do that with a file.
In the video they say this is for is fixing damaged threads. Wouldn't this only be useful for threads that are only damaged on the end of the bolt/stud, and even then only when there is sufficient length to allow for chopping some threads off the ends? If the threads were damaged anywhere BUT the end of the bolt, wouldn't some other method of chasing/cleaning the threads be more effective? Maybe this or this?
Flatlander is talking about using this to re-finish the ends of bolts cut short on a racecar build - for which it may work great. But the makers of this tool are stating its primary purpose is to clean up threads.
The napa tool rep brought those by my shop last month but I was so busy I didn't have a chance to look into it. He had it in a drill with a chunk of allthread in his hand but I told him I didn't have time for a demo. Now I regret that.
914Driver wrote: I can do that with a file.
I can too. And have.
The point is this tool does the task a hell of a lot faster and with greater consistency.
Wow, that is cool.
914Driver wrote: I can do that with a file.
That's how I learned.
Ian F wrote:914Driver wrote: I can do that with a file.I can too. And have. The point is this tool does the task a hell of a lot faster and with greater consistency.
All this.
I've done it manually before, but this just makes it so quick and easy I wouldn't settle for "eh that'll do" and end up with 5 great looking shortened bolts and 55 more ratty looking ones. 
I concur its kind of silly for "repairs" and a die or thread file would be better suited to fixing it most of the time. This would possibly help to get a die STARTED if the bolt is boogered up and the die wants to keep cocking sideways.
If I need to fix threads, I use a die. That tool removes them. Still very useful in some situations. It appeared in the video that everyone was taking off way too much material for just one boogered thread. And hey, can you at least TRY and hold the drill straight?
flatlander937 wrote: This would possibly help to get a die STARTED if the bolt is boogered up and the die wants to keep cocking sideways.
That's what I'm thinking, too. Even if it's a bit pricey, I don't mind adding it to the christmas list :) I'd use it all the time.
If you have one and like it, you should give feedback. Because with only 1 review - and a bad one at that, they won't sell as many, and we want cool stuff to continue to be made.
EvanB wrote: I have one at my desk that I have tested out. It works well and made in USA is a plus.
Is it in the catalog? I have to make enough special bolts or hack up all-thread that I really would like one.
In reply to Knurled:
Not yet, it is still one of my in-progress projects.
I saw this on FB today. I want one. I had something I could have used this on that a file just made worse.
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