This month I am featuring the “Grippy” tool which is being brought to the hobby by a great friend and fellow hobbyist Bobby Watts. I first met Bobby at the Birmingham Fun Fly when he was just entering high school, at that time he was flying a Raptor 90 and doing mild 3D, man how things change! Since then Bobby has graduated from college with his ME Degree and is now designing products for the model helicopter world under company name “Chimp Systems“.

The Grippy is a tool used for removing the second bolt from the head axle after the first has been broken loose. It does this by using a one way clutch which is pressed into knurled handle to grip the shaft as you twist the remaining bolt. This saves you from clamping on to the head axle with a pair of vise grips and potentially damaging the shaft. The Grippy comes in various sizes so you can service just about any size helicopter on the market today. You can get Grippy at www.heliproz.com for 19.99. Check out Bobby’s hilarious Grippy Infomercial on YouTube! –> http://youtu.be/a_hlx5vlFHQ