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billykan



Joined: 07 Jul 2008
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Location: Isle of Lewis

PostPosted: Sat Apr 30, 2016 10:31 am    Post subject: Heat inductor Reply with quote

Thinking of buying a heat inductor. look's a good bit of kit, Anybody on here got any experience with them, Thinking of one these in link's below, I like sykes pickavant tool's but i'm thinking the first link below are making the for sykes pickavant

http://theinductor.co.uk/Mini-Ductor

http://sykes-pickavant.com/products/workshop-equipment/heating/1802

Cheer's Ian.
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ukdave2002



Joined: 23 Nov 2007
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Location: South Cheshire

PostPosted: Sat Apr 30, 2016 10:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

What sort of jobs do you envisage using it for?, it seems an expensive if just used to heat up corroded nuts and bolts?

Cheers

Dave
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Bitumen Boy



Joined: 26 Jan 2012
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Location: Above the snow line in old Monmouthshire

PostPosted: Sun May 01, 2016 12:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm with Dave on this one, it seems a hell of a lot of money for kit that's very specialised and, to my mind, a bit over-sold. If you want to heat up corroded fasteners then nothing electrical is going to beat oxyacetylene, but I suspect that the claimed 1000w rating of this tool isn't even going to beat a simple MAPP torch, available at any decent plumber's merchant for a fraction of the price and a much more useful tool to boot. The risks involved with using a naked flame for heating things are real for sure, but nothing that can't be managed with a little common sense. Also, I doubt that anything likely to be damaged by exposure to heat from any kind of gas torch is much less likely to be damaged by exposure to heat from one of these devices. I wouldn't touch it with a bargepole and suggest anyone that does is likely to be disappointed.

There's a similar device on the market for soldering capillary joints on copper pipes without using a naked flame - essentially two big soldering irons hinged together with specially shaped tips. The makers claim it's ideal for making joints in situations where risk of fire means you can't use a gas torch, but the obvious solution to that problem is to use a simple compression fitting instead. Beware of new types of tools for old jobs, because there's a good chance they're trying to sell you an expensive solution to a problem that doesn't really exist.
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peter scott



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PostPosted: Sun May 01, 2016 1:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If the corroded item is at all chunky then I think it has to be the oxy-acetylene. In my experience you need to heat it to red heat and calor gas doesn't achieve this with chunky items.

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