About seven years ago, Ron Todd was living in a rusted railroad car and looking for dinner in the bottom of a trash bin.
Today, the Flushing Township man is promoting his invention, Erase-A-Hole, a product that looks like deodorant but contains a caulking compound that fixes holes without a putty knife.
But to Todd, the product is much more than an invention that can fix holes of three-quarters of an inch and smaller. For him, it has helped fill a void in his life and get over the 1996 accidental death of his son, Michael, that put him into a downward spiral of depression and homelessness.
His Erase-A-Hole invention is a product he said he created by mistake while working as drywall installer and repairman in the mid-1990s in Arizona. Unlike other products that aren’t applied with a putty knife, he said, his is a heavyweight compound.
Todd has sold about 200,000 Erase-A-Hole canisters since restarting his company in 2002, and thousands more are on order. He’s still hoping for his ultimate goal, which is to get the product in Home Depot or other home improvement chain stores.
But he said getting a product into a home improvement giant is an uphill battle. He also has had talks about plugging it on QVC shopping network.
Photo by Erase-A-Hole.
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