General Tools 3/8"-1/2" Grommet Kit - Rustproof Solid Brass Grommets for Tarp Repair, Reinforcing Canvases, and Fabric Rings

I bought this kit to put some grommets into 1" nylon webbing straps, the sort you use for camping or tieing down things on the roof of a car. I needed 3/8" grommets, but wasn't sure, so was happy to have the possibility of using a larger 1/2" grommet if needed (the 3/8" ended up working just fine). I watched the video as to how to do the punching and grommeting, and t worked perfectly the first time and everytime after that. The punch is not all that sharp, but with enough pounding *about 10-5 hard hammers) it punched through the webbing. I am sure it would be easier on thinner conventional tarp material. The results look professional, and I haven't had any problems with stress tears or fraying or anything like that. Great product!

This kit is top shelf. I don't commonly give five star reviews, saving them for when a product really good goes above and beyond expectations. Easy to use. Quality components.

I had one of these kits years ago, from the same company. It was much higher quality than this kit. Still, this might be the best (or one of the best) manual grommet kits on the market now. The grommets themselves are still heavy-duty and well made. The kit works well, except for the hole cutters which were very cheaply made. In my case, even with thin fabric, I had to hammer the cutter quite a lot and reposition it several times to finally put a hole in the material. Overall, even with the drawbacks, still likely the best choice out there. That is certainly true in terms of the quality of the grommets themselves.

Great Grommet Kit.

Took a few minutes to get the hang of it, but was able to use the entire kit, plus a refill kit to repair my pool cover. I initially didn't realize there were punches to make the size hole for the grommet and was just hammering the grommet together which wasn't working great. Once I found the punches (one small and one larger) I was golden and easily finished the task.

It is a good product, but it is easy to mess it up. The metal is soft and once you strike there is no going back. Probably 80% success rate.

It actually did what it was supposed to do. Created a tight, secure attachment to the material I was using ( sail cloth). Even the hole cutter worked well. I only occasionally had to use scissors to snip a thread. It does take a heavy hand to set the grommet, so don't be afraid to hit the tool hard. Not too many grommets in base package, so buy the extra grommets also.

This product was easy to use once I figured it out. The back has 4 pictures and those are the instructions which wasn't overly helpful, it was enough for me to almost figure out what it meant. This might just be a me problem but at first, since I have never used something like this before, I tried using the small and the large sizes together because I couldn't quite tell what the pictures were indicating. That didn't work, so I installed 2 with just the big part. What you'll want it the big guy and the big flat circle. I missed that those were in there. Even though I installed the first two wrong, I cut down a tarp and wanted to add back some grommets, they have held up well! The product seems to work well!