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As requested, here's a look at my DIY Heat-gun stand. On the way, I'll give you a few ideas about making one of your own.

A few reasons to own a heat gun~
●REMOVING LABELS. Stickers, price tags, and all sorts of gummy substances can be softened with heat. You can even remove wallpaper with it.

●THINNING EPOXY. Heat makes epoxy runnier. The fancy way of saying that is heat lowers the viscosity of a liquid. Viscosity just means resistance to flow. Think of warm maple syrup (which is runny) vs refrigerated syrup, which is gooey. Warm epoxy will get into little nooks and crannies, improving the overall bond. Heat will also cause epoxy to polymerize faster. Best of all, if you warm the substrate to which the epoxy will be attached, the epoxy will form a stronger bond. Same thing goes for

●HOT GLUE. If you warm up the parts you are about to glue together, the hot glue will bond much, much, much better. This is sort of a life hack. Or it's at least max-level hot glue gun skill. If you haven't been doing it, then you haven't been doing it right. In some cases, you can also use a heat gun and a glue stick to skip using the glue gun altogether, and then use some of the remaining time to write a how-to about what you've learned.

●DRYING PAINT. This sentence would be an elaboration of the point, were it not already entirely self-evident. In an effort to be totally redundant, I will thus restate the obvious: heat makes paint dry. And if you just enjoyed the previous sentence, you might even enjoy watching it as it dries!

● Electronics. Shrink tubing is a must for that sweet Lineman's splice you just made. If you don't know what that is, Google it first, and then come back. Oh, you knew? Wow. Smart. Ok, moving on. Beyond heat shrinking, a stationary heat gun (set to low) can also be nice for assisting solder flow on cold parts. Oh, and it softens soldering paste, in case you use a tiny paintbrush like I do.

●MELTING PLASTIC. Your plastic welding technique can also be assisted in the manner described above. Plastic welds have a tendency to cool too quickly, reducing the filler material's bond to the substrate. But welding is just the tip of the iceberg here; the true joy of heatgunning plastic is with shopping bags and sculpture. Here's a video on the subject,
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but I strongly recommend that you try this out on a wood chisel, because it works really well and it's uber satisfying.

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My opinion on the two models of heatgun shown here~
It's one of my most heavily-used tools. I've grown to consider it a must-have. In terms of design, there are three factors that I'd consider to be most important: simplicity, ergonomics, and dependability. As of the time of writing this, Wagner's Furno 300 (the yellow one in this video) is pretty much the gold standard for the consumer market, but I can't give it a perfect score. Under no abuse, the first one I owned broke beyond repair after what I would call not long enough. Its grade is fair in all three categories.

The most rugged model of heatgun I've seen was an old ACE brand, which, unbelievably, I once saw survive the following: it was left running—overnight, on high—after being placed inside of a molten-metal trough (and then covered with insulating heat blanket!) to help dry out the refractory cement, because the customer was in a hurry. The heatgun still worked fine the next day. Naturally, I ended up buying one (it's the black one in the video) and it is still running after a couple of years now, but it's neither the same model nor does it have the same trigger mechanism, which makes it a little more cumbersome to use.

I can't remember much about any of the previous models that I've owned, except that I had an old Wagner about three or four guns back that I really liked. Like I said—just look for simplicity, ergonomics, and dependability, and you'll be fine. Also consider price if your daddy isn't buying it for you. Right now, I'm eyeing up Harbor Freight's $20 WARRIOR, because I can't help but notice that their tool quality has seemed to tick upward in recent years.