The Clarke IT1500 Induction Heating Kit is a Seized Bolt’s Worst Nightmare

We’ve all been there: there you are, happily working away on what should be a simple repair job, and you come across one bolt that just will not budge. No matter what you try, no amount of torque seems to get it loosened up. It’s times like these you need to get creative.

One of the oldest tricks in the book is to get a seized bolt nice and hot – it expands slightly, yes, but so does the material surrounding it, giving it the freedom to move that it didn’t have before. The thing is, the traditional methods of doing this have often been a bit… flamy, and as you were (hopefully) told many times as a child, flames are dangerous.

A safer, and indeed more energy efficient, way of going about heating a bolt is through induction heating. If you weren’t paying attention in physics class, this basically involves using electromagnetic currents to generate heat instead, and can be just as effective at dealing with seized bolts, as demonstrated by Clarke’s IT1500 Induction Heating Kit.

Delivering an impressive 1500W of power, this handheld tool is seriously useful and versatile when it comes to stubborn bolts and joints. That’s thanks, in no small part, to three different sizes of tubular coils – 20mm, 26mm and 32mm – for dealing with different sizes of bolts.

But that’s far from the only thing the IT1500 can do. It also comes with a flat coil, ideal for removing stuck stickers, decals and graphics; a general-purpose U-shaped coil that can be modified to repair dents in bodywork; and even a versatile 1000mm flexible coil, perfect for big jobs like removing stuck ball joints and tie rod ends. Once you’ve tried it, those day-ruining seized bolts and other stubborn items will be a thing of the past. 

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