This contrivance is sold by Mac and Snapon and I saw that Autozone was listing one. You plug it in to your power (120v, about 10a) and the principle is electrical energy goes around this loop that you place over the nut. The heat is highly concentrated on the nut (to me this is notable and much improved over the acetylene torch plume).
Soon the nut [only) will glow red.
The principle of heating things to red is: the high temperature severely disturbs the corrosion products and makes them weaken, and as the steel heats up it expands and it also weakens, this causes the nut to yield (this means it changes its shape although subtle this is all one needs to get it to loosen) and then when it cools it isn't the same size, likely a hair bigger. These two things will allow it to spin right off. One would consider replacing such a nut with a new one for reassembly.
Hope this helps - the exh manifold on my backhoe for whatever reason is so corroded compared to the rest of the machine, this device will be added to the tool collection soon.... the one I looked into was sold by the dealers mentioned above and is by a company called Induction Innovations and the tool is called mini ductor II, lso has a rope (for bearings I presume) and a small pad too.
I learned about these since my shop is located in an area with a few other mechanic shops and they loaned me their trade magazines ... I dont actually know anyone that has one so between us maybe one will get the item and show some pics of how it worked. I asked them if they had one but with the economy the guys weren't buying as many tools, they say lots of folks don't keep their cars like they once did.
If you try this, please to keep us posted (and same for me on this topic).