HVAC

Schrader Valve Gripper Tool

Name: Schrader Valve Gripper Tool
Uploaded: 2025-10-01T14:15:03Z
Duration: 1 min 27 s
Description: When standard tools can’t loosen or remove a stubborn Schrader valve, the gripper tool saves the day. Its grabbers lock onto the valve so you can pull, turn, and remove it with constant pressure. At around $35–$40, this simple tool prevents wasted refrigerant, saves hours of labor, and restores cooling quickly for residents.

When standard tools can’t loosen or remove a stubborn Schrader valve, the gripper tool saves the day. Its grabbers lock onto the valve so you can pull, turn, and remove it with constant pressure. At around $35–$40, this simple tool prevents wasted refrigerant, saves hours of labor, and restores cooling quickly for residents.

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Now, let's say for example, that this valve can tighten, but it won't loosen. You can't remove it even with this tool. So now we have something called the gripper. So this to me, is one of the best inventions in HVAC that there is. Sometimes these valves will break. So what you do is you buy one of these, they're about 35, $40.

You depress it and you'll see the grabbers come out and you'll put it on here, and then you will see that it goes in. And the shrader valve top will fit in that groove. Now, the way that you use this is you put your thumb here, pull in the ring, and keep constant pressure, and it will pull that valve just like this.

And now you cannot remove that valve if you try. And then you can turn and remove with a lot of pressure and have to say, this simple tool has saved me hours upon hours. Of getting broken Rader valves out of a condensing unit line set, or any valve line set. So you put it over the valve, push, pull, turn, remove it.

And I have to tell you, this has saved me a ton of time and money, and it doesn't cost much to buy. So that's how you use both of these tools. And now we've repaired a leak. The resident has ac, we're not losing refrigerant, we're not wasting time making repairs over and over. And everybody wins.