Wood's Powr-Grip, Inc. is celebrating 50 years of service in Montana
LAUREL, MT – Wood's Powr-Grip, Inc. is celebrating 50 years of service in Montana.
In 1946, Howard Wood opened Wood's Auto Electric, an automotive, electric and small engine repair shop in Wolf Point, MT. In the early 1960s, after years of dissatisfaction with the accepted method of holding small-engine valves during the lapping process, Wood designed and built the first Wood's Powr-Grip valve grinder. The tool consisted of a small, spring-action vacuum pump mounted in a wooden handle, opposite a rubber suction cup which attached to the flat surface of an engine valve.