Company Offers Sumo Gators to Waterworks

New Sumo Gator-Grip® universal socket helps prevent expensive digging on city streets by gripping and turning badly corroded water valve nuts. Tool also enables better water system maintenance and could save millions of gallons of treated water each year.

West Boylston, MA (PRWEB) October 7, 2005 -- If Endeavor Tool Company (http://endeavortool.com) has its way every town in America will soon have Sumo Gators in its waterworks. On October 10, following eight months of extensive field tests, Endeavor will begin shipping “Sumo” Gator-Grip® universal sockets to water departments nationwide. The Sumo Gator-Grip® performs the function of a "gate key" and is designed to turn corroded valve nuts that would otherwise need to be dug out and replaced. Replacing a single valve nut can cost anywhere from $1,500 in a small town where interruptions of water service and traffic jams inconvenience relatively few people to over $1,000,000 in a city like New York where many people are affected and lawsuits are common. Mike Tanuis, Operations Manager of the Watertown CT Fire District, says the Sumo Gator-Grip® saved his department “at least $2,000” the first time it was used. Other experts have observed that the Sumo Gator-Grip® is likely to improve water system maintenance and should result in saving millions of gallons of treated water each year.

The 3” diameter Sumo Gator-Grip® is the giant descendant of the consumer Gator-Grip® universal socket that was sold on TV and is now sold at mass merchants and hardware stores world wide. Made in the USA of stainless steel, the Sumo Gator-Grip® uses 54 steel rods packed in a large, deep socket. Each rod is backed by a spring that pushes it to the top of the socket. When placed over a valve nut the center rods retract and the outer rods surround the nut. As the fastener is turned the torque is transmitted through the outer rods to the walls of the socket. Maximum torque capability is well in excess of 1,000 ft lbs. The walls of the socket have curved grooves that cause the rods to clamp down on the valve nut when the socket is turned. Endeavor Tool Company President Steve Quick explains, “no matter how corroded it is, the Sumo Gator-Grip® will grip it. Rounded, rusted fasteners are no problem at all.”

Endeavor Tool Company is a privately held company located in West Boylston, Massachusetts.

For more information:

Endeavor Tool Company

Company website: www.endeavortool.com

Manufacturer of the Sumo Gator-Grip®

Sumo Gator-Grip® info: http://www.endeavorproducts.com/ggrip/sumo.html

Tel: 1-508-835-9992 Fax: 1-508-835-5454

Steve Quick – President

Frank Micelli – National Sales Manager

Mike Marks – Director of Public Affairs

Watertown Fire District

Tel: 1-860-274-6332 Fax: 1-860-945-3441

Mike Tanuis - Operations Manager

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