These devices make hot air and nothing else. That sets their limits. But within these limits, a wide variety of problems in the home and workshop can be solved with heat guns – from removing wax to soldering.
Hot air can do much more, than one might think at a cursory glance. But if you think about it, that these blowers can produce hot air up to 650°C – a hair dryer can hardly do more than 60° C, an oven 250° C – then you have an idea of the energy, which is in play here.
First of all: Work with long-handled scrapers and spatulas, so that you don't even get your hands in the area of the hot air. However, wear work gloves to be on the safe side. then: Choose the temperature, which is appropriate for the material to be processed. Plastics, for example, deform when heated, but they can also melt. After all: Only with the right accessories – the right nozzle for every application – the work with the pistol is quick and easy.
HEATING AND DRYING
The charcoal can be lit without additional lighters and kept glowing with the air flow. When the lawn mower comes from the cold winter quarters, a warm air shower for the spark plug and engine helps to start quickly. warm wax, whether for skis or furniture care, Works much better on a heated surface. For small repairs, the putty dries – whether on wood, metal or on the wall – more quickly. Two-component adhesives set faster with heat, their ultimate strength is increased. Plexiglas and other plastics can be bent over a mold, when gently heated with a gun. Frozen faucets can be thawed with hot air. But first you have to turn off the water, because most of the time the line has gotten a crack from the frost and then the plumber is asked. You can burn out weeds in pavers and cracks in walls with hot air.
RELEASE AND SEPARATE
Styrofoam can be cut with a sharp knife, only then the flakes fly through the workshop. The styrofoam cutter on the reducing nozzle goes through the material like butter and at the same time closes the edges through the melting process.
Old foam-backed carpeting can usually be easily removed, only there, where furniture used to be and at the passageways it is very firmly connected to the floor. This connection can be easily loosened with hot air.
The large photo in the background shows, how to remove paint from window frames. The glass protection nozzle prevents the glass from heating up. The putty in the window rabbet also comes off more easily, when you warm it up. When removing paint, you need to pay attention to this, that there is no flammable material nearby.
With the reducer- or point nozzle, the heat is bundled, soldering points can also be desoldered in this way, for example copper pipes. However, not precisely: The pistol is unsuitable for precision work.
A stuck nut is heated with the point nozzle, expands and can then be twisted off the thread. Edge bands are usually processed with hot-melt adhesive. Old edge bands can therefore be easily removed with hot air.
JOIN AND SHRINK
When it comes to soldered connections, it matters, that the soldered seam is heated, so that the solder on it melts. The high heat can only be achieved with a reducing nozzle. Shrink tubing is available in different diameters and different colors.
With that you can–Securely mark the ends of electric cables.
Who plastic panels – always of the same kind – wants to connect, grabs a tubular-soled sweat shoe. The tube simultaneously heats the threaded plastic welding "wire" and the
Flanks of the two plastic plates, that are to be connected. All three parts involved enter into an intimate connection, recognizable by the weld seam.
When welding foils, the edges are heated with the flat nozzle, thereby loosened and then pressed together with the pressure roller and firmly connected. With the welding mirror you can butt connect hoses and plastic pipes. Plastic can be heated by heating-
Stretch water hoses and slide them onto the faucet more easily. Once they've cooled, they're rock solid.