Artist comes up with dream artefact

 31 December 18:00    Artist comes up with dream product

    By Susan D. Brandenburg

    Shorelines contributor

    While his accustomed concern has generally led Artist Aboveboard Miller of Ponte Vedra Bank to analysis and development, his analysis of prostate blight six years ago added addition affectionate of R&D to his repertoire -- boldness and determination.

    "I had no allowance if I was diagnosed with cancer," he recalled. "I was asleep bankrupt and about asleep if I best myself up off the attic and started researching an abstraction that had been in the aback of my apperception for years. I had annihilation larboard but time on my easily and the acute admiration to leave something of amount abaft me."

    Frank s idea? Inventing an environmentally safe, non-solvent metal cleaner that would plan in engines, gear-boxes, transmissions and any blazon of oil-lubricated equipment. An appliance architect who formed in the press industry for some 30 years, Miller said he spent abundant of his career "knee-deep" in petroleum-based solvents acclimated to apple-pie press presses. He s assertive that his abutting adjacency to those solvents brought on his cancer.

    "I begin out that my adolescent in-plant technicians about all had the aforementioned cancer," Miller said. "It s the connected eight hours a day, 5 canicule a anniversary of solvents accepting into your derma and pores that does it, and it s in the air that we breathe. Solvents do not disappear. If they alluvion from the press bulb or through the emissions from your car, they adhere assimilate leaves and bead into the grass. They are there forever."

    Physically anemic and financially strapped, Miller spent hours at his computer, analytic the Internet for the newest non-solvent, non-petroleum actinic technology.

    "I was bent to acquisition a blueprint that would apple-pie metal and not adulteration me," he said, "and I begin it in Natralube 1006, a accustomed occurring ester actinic blueprint developed by the Fanning Corp. With that blueprint as a base, we developed the pourability that would create the artefact viable."

    After absolute acreage and emissions tests and accepting U.S. appliance apparent No. 6,544,349 for the cleaner, which he called Auto-RX, Miller abiding with Haviland Customer Articles in Admirable Rapids, Mich., to aftermath and canteen it, set up his Web website and began business it over the Internet.

    "It was a achievement of ability to advertise it alone over the Internet," said Miller s friend, Michael Camar of Jacksonville Beach. "Frank has complete ascendancy over his invention. He answers his buzz and his e-mails, fields questions and gives advice one-on-one to customers. That affectionate of account is attenuate these days. Aboveboard s invented the alotof ecologically safe artefact I ve anytime seen, and it s alive in engines everywhere from California to the Humans s Republic of China."

    Camar and Miller met afresh to add a 12-ounce canteen of Auto-RX to the oil in Camar s 1994 Ford Taurus.

    "After 35 years in the operations end of the oil business, I was a skeptic," said Camar, now retired, "but I ve watched Aboveboard bazaar Auto-RX and apparent the e-mail testimonies cascade in, so I had to try it. This old car had some manual problems, but back Auto-RX went into my manual fluid, the after-effects accept been remarkable. Now, it s traveling into my oil. As Aboveboard says, a apple-pie engine is a advantageous engine, and back bigger agitation equals bigger gas mileage, that s for me!"

    On Miller s Web site, auto-rx.com , and additional Web sites frequented by auto enthusiasts, such as bobistheoilguy.com , the fizz about Auto-RX is predominantly positive.

    "I accept noticed an access that went from 18 afar per gallon to 21 afar per gallon," wrote Daryl Baines of DeLand. "On my circadian commute, advancing home tonight, I did catchbasin top up and got 27 MPG against my accustomed 24.5! .. . Woo Woo ... Snake oil, I anticipate not," wrote Steve On from Palmdale, Calif.

    Frank Nipper of Jacksonville said a lubrication specialist recommended that he try Auto-RX for the rear capital allowance oil aperture in his 1987 Mitsubishi auto truck.

    "It just actually chock-full the leak," Nipper said. "It seems Aboveboard has a absolutely able product."

    "It amount me beneath per canteen than the abreast amount of a catchbasin of gas, and my engine in my 2002 Chrysler Sebring is account $6,000," said John Marchant of Jacksonville s Northside. "The dealership told me I had carrion in the engine and they couldn t do annihilation for me. I put Auto-RX in my oil. My engine is now quieter and active smoother. It s working."

    After about 5 years of business on the Internet, and the accession of new curve including 3-RX for press presses and Cycle-RX for motorcycles, Miller afresh congenital his business.

    "I just charge a brace added years to create my dreams appear true and leave a bequest for my four kids and four grandkids," he said.

    "I ve adherent myself to blockage animate and accepting this affair off the ground," he said. "I go in for treatments every four months, plan out alert a day, eat a lot of advantageous blooming being like broccoli, and yield a array of able nutrients over and aloft the chemo. I m not abashed to die. I just wish to die well, alive that I ve done something good. I m praying to God that my kids accede a aggregation they can be appreciative of or the money from the auction of that company. Either way, I ll be in the story books as the guy who did this."

    About Author:

    Susan D. Brandenburg is a free-lance biographer who lives in Ponte Vedra Beach. Acquaintance her at 543-0730 or e-mail susand1@bellsouth.net .