Ten years ago, Tom Gough, founder and president of Induction Innovations®, was going door to door selling his flameless repair equipment. Gough entered Car Smart Automotive, a 14-bay shop that performs both mechanical and collision repair owned by Zoran Sarich in East Dundee, Ill. and Gough met a customer for life.
Gough’s live demonstration of Induction Innovations flameless tool, the Mini-Ductor®, immediately impressed the shop owner by offering a safer alternative to releasing metals from corrosion. Sarich has been using Induction Innovations products ever since.
A Flameless Approach
The Mini-Ductor removes objects, like nuts and bolts that are too tight, without an open flame. Before, when nuts and bolts were stuck on the vehicle, Sarich would have to drill or grind them out, which often caused breakage. If Sarich ever did use a flame to loosen anything up, he had to make sure that there was no danger of anything melting.
“Anytime you’re working around gasoline and different chemicals, you don’t want a flame around if you can help it,” Sarich says.
This process was tedious and ate up a lot of time. Now, with the Mini-Ductor, all Sarich has to do is wrap the appropriately sized coil around the object that is stuck and then pull the trigger to heat it up with invisible heat. Within a few seconds, a wrench can be used to unscrew the item. There’s no need to keep a fire extinguisher nearby. It can be used on almost anything that needs to be loosened on a vehicle.
“You just wrap the coil around the bolt, there’s nothing to check,” Sarich says. “It saves at least an hour of messing around and putting down plastic.”
