Originally Posted by Kira
Too bad they don't make on for broken-off studs.
Isn't that the point of using heat to begin with? Get heat on before you try?
Originally Posted by billt460
Anyone have any actual experience using one of these things? They're not cheap, but it looks like it could save the day with removing rusted, frozen bolts and nuts. And not overheat everything around it, like what happens when you use a torch. They have cheaper models, along with cheaper links to this one. But this is the only one I could find that was short enough to hot link.
Cant say I do, but we know that most all penetrant only go but so far on heavily rusted parts.
This thing makes all the sense in the world... but they need to figure out how to make it more like a soldering iron and less like that monstrosity that it is. I get it that they're probably pushing 1kW through that coil, and that much energy rapidly changing to heat isn't the best thing to have near the hands... but if one wants to use this for any practical application where access is a much more significant consideration, I think it needs to be smaller...