A method and apparatus are provided for pipe joint fusion-welding and other applications, in which a hinged clamshell inductor apparatus is wound from a single contiguous length of Litz wire cable with turns of each half of the clamshell apparatus configured so that their individual magnetic fields are additive to induce uniform longitudinal current flow providing uniform circumferential heating in a carbon steel susceptor tube inserted within pipe ends to be joined.
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