Inventor Comes Up With Dream Product

While his natural curiosity has often led inventor Frankeverywhere from California to the People's Republic
Miller of Ponte Vedra Beach to research andof China."
development, his diagnosis of prostate cancer sixCamar and Miller met recently to add a 12-ounce
years ago added another kind of R&D to hisbottle of Auto-RX to the oil in Camar's 1994 Ford
repertoire -- resolve and determination.Taurus.
"I had no insurance when I was diagnosed with"After 35 years in the operations end of the oil
cancer," he recalled. "I was dead broke and nearlybusiness, I was a skeptic," said Camar, now retired,
dead when I picked myself up off the floor and"but I've watched Frank market Auto-RX and seen
started researching an idea that had been in the backthe e-mail testimonies pour in, so I had to try it. This
of my mind for years. I had nothing left but time onold car had some transmission problems, but since
my hands and the intense desire to leave somethingAuto-RX went into my transmission fluid, the results
of value behind me."have been remarkable. Now, it's going into my oil. As
Frank's idea? Inventing an environmentally safe,Frank says, a clean engine is a healthy engine, and
non-solvent metal cleaner that would work in engines,since better combustion equals better gas mileage,
gear-boxes, transmissions and any type ofthat's for me!"
oil-lubricated equipment.On Miller's Web site, and other Web sites frequented
An application engineer who worked in the printingby auto enthusiasts, such as the buzz about Auto-RX
industry for some 30 years, Miller said he spent muchis predominantly positive.
of his career "knee-deep" in petroleum-based"I have noticed an increase that went from 18 miles
solvents used to clean printing presses. He'sper gallon to 21 miles per gallon," wrote Daryl Baines
convinced that his close proximity to those solventsof DeLand. "On my daily commute, coming home
brought on his cancer.tonight, I did tank top up and got 27 MPG versus my
"I found out that my fellow in-plant technicians nearlynormal 24.5! .. . Woo Woo ... Snake oil, I think not,"
all had the same cancer," Miller said. "It's the constantwrote Steve On from Palmdale, Calif.
eight hours a day, five days a week of solventsFrank Nipper of Jacksonville said a lubrication specialist
getting into your skin and pores that does it, and it'srecommended that he try Auto-RX for the rear main
in the air that we breathe. Solvents do not disappear.seal oil leak in his 1987 Mitsubishi pickup truck.
When they drift from the printing plant or through"It just absolutely stopped the leak," Nipper said. "It
the emissions from your car, they hang onto leavesseems Frank has a really effective product."
and drop into the grass. They are there forever.""It cost me less per bottle than the present-day cost
Physically weak and financially strapped, Miller spentof a tank of gas, and my engine in my 2002 Chrysler
hours at his computer, searching the Internet for theSebring is worth $6,000," said John Marchant of
newest non-solvent, non-petroleum chemicalJacksonville's Northside. "The dealership told me I had
technology.sludge in the engine and they couldn't do anything for
"I was determined to find a formula that would cleanme. I put Auto-RX in my oil. My engine is now quieter
metal and not poison me," he said, "and I found it inand running smoother. It's working."
Natralube 1006, a natural occurring ester chemicalAfter about five years of marketing on the Internet,
formula developed by the Fanning Corp. With thatand the addition of new lines including 3-RX for
formula as a base, we developed the pourability thatprinting presses and Cycle-RX for motorcycles, Miller
would make the product viable."recently incorporated his business.
After independent field and emissions tests and"I just need a couple more years to make my
receiving U.S. application patent No. 6,544,349 for thedreams come true and leave a legacy for my four
cleaner, which he named Auto-RX, Miller arrangedkids and four grandkids," he said.
with Haviland Consumer Products in Grand Rapids,"I've devoted myself to staying alive and getting this
Mich., to produce and bottle it, set up his Web sitething off the ground," he said. "I go in for treatments
and began marketing it over the Internet.every four months, work out twice a day, eat a lot
"It was a stroke of genius to sell it only over theof healthy green stuff like broccoli, and take a
Internet," said Miller's friend, Michael Camar ofbattery of strong nutrients over and above the
Jacksonville Beach. "Frank has complete control overchemo. I'm not afraid to die. I just want to die well,
his invention. He answers his phone and his e-mails,knowing that I've done something good. I'm praying
fields questions and gives advice one-on-one toto God that my kids inherit a company they can be
customers. That kind of service is rare these days.proud of or the money from the sale of that
Frank's invented the most ecologically safe productcompany. Either way, I'll be in the history books as
I've ever seen, and it's working in enginesthe guy who did this.