The BEST Heat Guns (According to Adam Savage)

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At the prompting of an old friend, Adam revisits the topic of workshop heat guns and runs through his favorites that he keeps at arm's reach at the workbench. From a trusty corded heat gun to his all-time favorite blow dryer, each has its advantages and ideal project environments. But if you're going to just get one heat gun, here's the one Adam would start with.
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@tested 7 дней назад

Dewalt corded heat gun: amzn.to/3BC9sD5 Dewalt cordless heat gun: amzn.to/3BAjdSq Milwaukee cordless heat gun: amzn.to/3brjKvp Conair Yellow Bird Blow Dryer: amzn.to/4egOObN Conair InfinitiPro Hair Dryer: amzn.to/3MCZiGD Mini Heat Gun: amzn.to/4dW2BEO Disclaimer: Tested may earn an affiliate commission when you buy through the links here. Mask gift made by www.tiktok.com/@callsign_ragnar

@JoeHHarrell 6 дней назад

I'd be interested in knowing what pressure washer Fitz (and Adam) got, lol.

@dbomber69 6 дней назад

The best heat gun for me is a hot air desoldering gun. Allows me to set temp and air flow. I've used it to start charcoal, strip paint, cook food, vaping, and a whole list of other uses. Thawing pipes without worrying about starting a fire.

@SxC97 6 дней назад

Between the Dewalt tools, the Conair hair dryer, and the Papermate pencils, it seems like Adam has a real preference for yellow tools lol.

@ed_halley 6 дней назад

"Its crappiness turns out to be its defining feature." -- Adam Savage's review of a Dewalt product.

@gfdia35 6 дней назад

Lol ,,, id certainly prefer the original white-ish/beige seriously OG Conair to the bright yellow they turned it to so many years back

@JonasHamill 5 дней назад

Add to this his fluke multimeters

@lordfluxington 5 дней назад

@@ed_halley Haha! I don't think they'll include that in their marketing. :)

@robertpouard2975 6 дней назад

Electrical Tech here, I absolutely love the stick heat gun! If you love your self and other people, you will label your wiring. That gun works all day shrinking labels!

@chiphill4856 6 дней назад

I'm looking for a good cordless heat gun for doing work aboard boats where I'm not always near 120vac. Have you had any luck with the butane stick torches?

@tychosis 6 дней назад

Yeah, I have one just like that (even same blue and white haha) in the lab that I use for heat-shrink. Does a great job, doesn't blow crap around (like Adam mentions), etc etc

@ThorJohannmakes 6 дней назад

Velociraptor in the background, you little tease

@tested 6 дней назад

Yes! Stay tuned.

@jeromethiel4323 6 дней назад

"Ghost Buster!" LOL! Took me a second, then i got it. Good one! ^-^

@briansavage932 6 дней назад

I have my late grandfather's Chicago Electric heat gun from Harbor Freight which he had since the 1980s. It still works like a champ and stays holstered next to my workbench ready to use. It has a low and high setting and is pretty much perfect for anything I've ever needed it for.

@TheNewJankyWorkshop 6 дней назад

Those really do work great. Mine died off a couple of years ago, and replaced it with a Porter-Cable. Which I learned is basically the exact same thing, just with a fancier name on it.

@RandomToon1 6 дней назад

My favorite heat gun is one many people never think about - a hot air de\soldering iron. Gets hot enough to melt solder but is small and directed enough to not completely trash everything around it. Plus, the temperature control is measured in degrees C, and not just a +/- dial. Pretty much the only way to reflow IC's without scrapping the PCB if you do that kind of thing, can make some fun patterns in Kydex, and in a pinch can be used to touch up a 3D print (although I wouldn't really recommend this for a novice).

@chiphill4856 6 дней назад

Damn that sounds cool. Do you think that would work for heat shrink tubing on wires?

@RandomToon1 6 дней назад

@@chiphill4856 It totally would, but you have to be really careful because it would also be able to melt the cables so lowest heat settings and distance to not melt things would be required.

@jeromethiel4323 6 дней назад

Oh yeah. A hot air desoldering station is amazing. Mine came with a wide variety of tips, allowing for precision heating to a wide angle nozzle. But you are entirely correct, they get much hotter than a standard heat gun. You may need to use the correct nozzle, and then vary distance as required to not overheat the surrounding materials. I have actually used stick matches or a lighter for heat shrink, it doesn't require all that much heat to shrink. I have also just used the soldering iron itself, as the side of the tip will shrink heat shrink just fine. Just have to keep moving it around.

@BertrandLeRoy 4 дня назад

I was going to post a comment to that effect, you beat me to it. +1 to everything: great temperature and air flow control, interchangeable nozzles. The range of applications goes way beyond melting solder paste. I use mine to shrink tubes, melt hot glue, loosen glue to open devices, and many more.

@jeromethiel4323 4 дня назад

@@BertrandLeRoy You could probably make a grilled cheese with one. I actually made grilled cheese on a steam iron, back in the day. Could not have a cooking surface in the dorms, but you could have an iron. On wool setting, it was enough to toast bread. And if you can toast bread, you can make a grilled cheese. Ruined the iron, but it's sacrifice was tasty cheesy goodness.

@Forge366 6 дней назад

I think this is Adam's third heat gun video. I still watched the entire thing :)

@docersatz5228 6 дней назад

A neighbor in the building gave me a hot-air pop-corn popper she didn't like in the early '80s. I didn't like it either, but I stripped it down and used it for a heat gun. I've used other much finer ones in shops where I've worked, but at my home shop, I still used the core of that pop-corn popper - it really puts out the heat!

@barbafantfant2597 4 дня назад

I have actully been thinking in the other direction - I have a heat gun but not a popcorn popper, and am thinking that some appropriately fine wire mesh could be formed into a small open-top basket for the kernels, angled at a collection bowl....

@docersatz5228 3 дня назад

@@barbafantfant2597 Good luck with that! Why not? You've got to try it.

@ITGOTEVERYWHERE 6 дней назад

So when I was an electrician, we had those big, long PVC pipe heater boxes for melting the pipe into big, long sweeps so it was easier to pull the wire through. Well if we didn't have access to one of those and we only had a few to do, then we would pack the pipe full of sand/dirt and use a heat gun. The sand inside the pipe would make it much less likely to collapse the pipe as we would gradually bend it into whatever shape we needed.

@Guardian_Arias 6 дней назад

I really like a battery powered heat guns for a quick heat shrink job. I often use a corded heat gun with a digital dial for higher heat or precision heat like when desoldering flat pack microchips especially land grid arrays. The last heat gun that goes missed that I keep around is a Propane Torch, great for instant heat for a large number of things from cooking to torching away stringing on 3D prints plus a propane torch keeps working during a power outage.

@gregorymacneil2836 6 дней назад

My Steinel Heat gun was purchased about 20 years ago. It was expensive, but its wide range of heat and air settings makes it an excellent tool. The Steinel Heat gun does everything a complete collection of heat guns does, plus it has an unmatched set of accessory nozzles. I also bought the DeWalt cordless model after watching Adam's previous video. I like its portability. I use the Dewalt with a 9-amp FlexVolt battery so it will not tip over. The DeWalt is great for warming your boots on a cold winter day, thawing frozen locks and a host of other things. However, it will not melt roofing tar for practical purposes, unless you are on the sunny side of the roof in August.

@aaronl_trains_and_planes 6 дней назад

I've got one of those small ones, a hair dryer and a true heat gun. I have a model train layout and work on the trains converting them to DCC, so I use whichever one is closest for the heat shrink when I'm soldering wires. The small one is also great to get paint to dry much faster.

@joelbutler9422 6 дней назад

I bought a Wagner heat gun several years ago because I could not find my makita. It is by far the best heat gun I have used. It has a digital display and both the fan and heat are changed incrementally. It was cheap and also came with some useful nozzles and a scraper. The heat rating goes to 11.

@starhawke380 6 дней назад

My old HarborFreight heat gun died several years ago after over 10 years of solid use. I got the new Bauer one from HF for $35. It stands on its back, has several heat and fan settings, and a cool down cycle when you are done. Ive used it for a couple years now, and it has been really solid.

@zillathor 6 дней назад

Heat gun story! I am a cosplayer and work with eva foam, as one does, and it took your previous heat gun video about the crappy factory "heat gun" to realise that this whole time i hadnt been sealing the foam well enough because the heat gun I was using at the time was really under powered! Glad to say now I have a heat gun with the tempreture dial and my props now have infinite better finishes now that they're being sealed properly! Thanks for that!

@DocStainton 6 дней назад

So happy to see the Cordless and Tube corded heat guns! The tube Corded heat "gun" lives on my electronics workbench, it's my go-to for heat shrink because it's not hot enough to scorch but good enough to get the job done. As a fire alarm technician, I have the Ryobi Cordless heat gun and it's "Crapiness" is the secret to being gentle enough to activate heat detectors for testing WITHOUT melting the plastic casing!

@randycarter2001 6 дней назад

That corded Dewalt heat gun (looks like a space laser) controls the temperature by actually varying the power into the heat element, thus the air flow is constant. Many other heat guns control the heat by restricting the airflow, less airflow equals hotter air. Burns out quick if the intake becomes clogged.

@Rick_Makes 6 дней назад

I picked up one of those small stick heat guns the last time Adam showed them and it's so much more useful than I thought it would be. It's just the right size to keep in a tucked away but easy to grab place unlike a full size heat gun that always feels like it's in the way. I do agree that the cord it way too short and I keep meaning to replace/extend it but never get around to it.

@legoseanland1760 6 дней назад

They’re excellent for heat shrinking

@TheOzarkWizard 6 дней назад

The cordless heat guns are important for when I am heat shrinking wire in the field and don't have an outlet

@deanallenjones 6 дней назад

My wife got me one of the low power craft heat guns. it has saved so many projects from being "over cooked"

@Cole3418 6 дней назад

I bought a Drill Master heat gun at Harbor Freight for $9 about 10 years ago, and it still works great. It has high and low, no adjustable heat settings. If I want less heat, then I move it back further. It was only meant to only be temporary, but it just keeps going.

@MrBrian43119 6 дней назад

The stick is great for sticker removal too

@s0wndman949 6 дней назад

My mom had a white one of those sunbird hair driers. The flip switches were fun to play with as a kid.

@ickipoo 6 дней назад

Adam, for another source of hot air with very fine control, have a look at surface-mount hot air rework stations. Not cheap, however.

@pharmdiddy5120 6 дней назад

Heat gun story that was more of a happy accident... My little girl and I were painting a little wooden boat. Impatient to paint after priming, I told her to get a hair dryer but she got a heat gun off the wall. I thought let's just give it a try. What it made was a beautiful crackle pattern. I thought surely we'd have to sand and redo the entire thing but we both loved it :)

@jimmyers4890 6 дней назад

For me up has always been on as almost every place you go a light switch goes up to go on so therefore up should be high the down should be low at least that's what is intuitive for me. Thanks for another great video. PS. I like the shorter ones as I try to limit myself to two hours a day of videos

@nickrivera2391 6 дней назад

For precision heat gun-ing, Adam needs to look into a Hot Air Rework station used for circuit boards. They usually have a similar form factor as the last mini heat gun shown. They have interchangeable nozzle tips and connected with a hose to a base station where you can control both air speed and temperature, often with the ability to save a few different presets.

@THE_BaconPirate 6 дней назад

LOL 😅 I can just hear Adam's production staff rolling their eyes every time he utters the words " I'll include the link in the description" 😂

@roebuddy01 5 дней назад

You are right about the localisation of heat with the Milwaukee heat gun. I have had one for about three years now and use it with a heavy 5.0 Ah M18 battery. While i have used it for 'traditional' jobs like activating heat shrink, de-icing an old freezer compartment, melting adhesive backing, melting solder, melting wax for splash proofing fabrics, reinvigorating sunbaked plastics... The most hours I've spent using it is localised weeding in the garden. Sure i have to bend down/ hands-knees the word, but as i have cats, i cant use harsh chemicals. Its one of my favourite tools.

@normalicy 6 дней назад

I'm surprised by the lack of mention of a hot air solder rework station. I've found the small tips very handy for when you want localized heating, and of course, the adjustable temperature is a bonus.

@echoshatter 6 дней назад

I bought a Wagner Furno 750 which is just a great heat gun all around. Took it up to my friend's lake house for my bachelor party along with some PVC and bowstring and we made bows and shot arrows that weekend. They were terrible, we had no idea what we were doing, but that heat gun ran pretty much continuously for a couple hours. Lots of fun. Once I get my shop setup one thing I'd like to do is build some jigs to make good PVC bows for friends and family.

@raymitchell9736 6 дней назад

The ultimate heat gun that I have is part of a Surface Mount rework station that has a 3-in-1: #1 soldering iron, #2 solder sucker (desolderer) and #3 a hot air wand... it allows me control over air-flow and temperature in fine step increments and has a bunch of specialty nozzles to allow me to focus that hot air exactly where I want it to go. If you're interested in knowing about that, It is a Xytronic model LF-853D... there are a bunch of other models and you will likely find a rabbit hole to go down... don't blame me for that LOL. But for everyday heat gun use, I bought a "Yellow" heat gun off of Amazon... Yellow being the defining feature LOL. It has a speed control and an adjustable temp control knobby thing on the back just like that DeWalt. Hmmm... now that I'm thinking about it, maybe it's the same manufacturer in China that makes them? Oh well, whatever, it "works"

@BigIggy 6 дней назад

The bots are out of control, I reported all that I could, but I'm sure they'll keep coming for hours.

@Forge366 6 дней назад

It's wild how obvious they are.

@robinkesterlives 6 дней назад

I just commented in my comment on that. Some of them are doing a "first!" bit now, pretty funny because some of the actual people who call first might argue w them lol :D

@realfoggy 6 дней назад

What do you report them for? I usually go with spam or misleading.

@tested 6 дней назад

We ban them but we can’t do it fast enough, and then it seems even more show up. It’s crazy.

@robinkesterlives 6 дней назад

@@realfoggy Thats what I use.

@vdevov 6 дней назад

Fun fact: best way to reheat a pizza fast to like-new, if not better, is in a skillet being blasted all over with a heat gun. You’re welcome.

@gamingastronaut517 6 дней назад

Isn't that just basically simulating an induction oven/air fryer

@Grimm-Gaming 6 дней назад

I have that same yellow bird hair dryer from when i was a little kid still works great

@sreeser3512 5 дней назад

I have a Music Medic Vortex "air torch". It's head-and-shoulders above every other heat gun I've ever used. The wand is light and comfortable, and it's precise in temperature and airspeed while also including tips to essentially give different sizes of airstream, which is all very important when you don't want to burn one thing nearby while working another or burn finishes on parts you want to heat. I use it mainly for its intended purpose of working on musical instruments for which it is a colossal time- and effort-saver (many if not most repairers are still using open-flame alcohol lamps, there is no in-between), but it does get tasked with anything in my shop a normal heat gun would do and it excels at those as well.

@ClockworkAvatar 5 дней назад

gotta add, hot air rework stations are amazing tooo, you can really truly concentrate the heat and dial in a specific temperature, they aren't cheap but sometimes they are the exact thing you want/need.

@MinorLG 6 дней назад

Whatever the beige conair equivalent of the yellow bird was, was the hairdryer that my house used growing up for the entirety of me growing up. The power switch was a multi-function switch. Dead center was off. Down was speed 2 and up was speed 1. Had the same exact mold as the yellow bird, but in beige and that was the best hairdryer ever until it died.

@robinkesterlives 6 дней назад

I was just thinking about this subject. I do a lot of soldering of rc cars and air brushing of RC bodies and found a heatgun to be very useful. The heatgun I got is super cheap and honestly my hairdryer works better. I run a lot of Dewalt stuff so the cordless looks nice. :D

@robinkesterlives 6 дней назад

The bots are getting creative, several are proclaiming they are "first!" today :D

@tested 6 дней назад

That and the porn bots. We can’t ban them fast enough.

@robinkesterlives 6 дней назад

@@tested It keeps us all on our toes doesnt it :D At least they entertain as they become our bane.

@BaselNebula 6 дней назад

But wait! There's one other you may want to consider---a Hot-Air Rework Station. It's great because you can adjust the heat and the air intensity, along with the nozzle size. Not only can you change the volume and the temperature of air but how fine a stream you would like. It can handle heat-shrink to solder, that should do you just fine for most hot-air applications. You can pick a good one up for $40-$100, and you can find portable or benchtop versions. Thanks for what you do. -B.Nebula

@PetrolJunkie 5 дней назад

I bought a Wagner heat gun that has a wide range of heat settings. I love having all of the settings. Depending on what I'm doing with it from peeling stickers to keeping tubes of silicone warm in the winter, the flexibility has been everything and it's so much cheaper than the name brand tool companies.

@scottwolf9914 6 дней назад

I have two heat guns. One is the same small micro 300W heat gun that I use only for heat shrink tubing. The other is a Milwaukee variable temp heat gun with a display that I got about 20 years ago and still works great. You set the temp with a slider and get instant feedback on the current air temp. (It's an older model that the current offering Milwaukee has.)

@heiner71 6 дней назад

I was gifted an old red Master-Mite heat-gun. It looks like a 1970's science fiction object but works great. There is a photo floating around from the Cray Supercomputer company manufacturing floor, where they were using the same heat guns.

@MarceloSeravalli 6 дней назад

I had the black and decker for years, recently upgraded to a Metabo and wow!!! of course the B&D well, it heats jejeje, but the Metabo has 9 temp settings and 3 fans settings, not a shill just a Metabo fanboy, I wish I can one day get all the drills and wireless tools. Grabbing one of those cordless drills feels like grabbing a gun!!

@TheChiefSmeg69 6 дней назад

I have a couple of heat guns - one is similar to your corded dewalt and it is just too much for heat shrink and model making, and then I saw the video where you showed off the little white and blue one. Yeah, bought one straight away and it is simply superb (but mine is black and red). Once again Adam thank you for such a good recommendation

@leonidasnoble6939 5 дней назад

Had spine surgery on neck a few weeks ago. I'm laid up with a weight restriction recovery. Just wanted to say thank you for your videos. Can’t tell you how much I love your videos each morning. I always get a little giddy getting my breakfast together and watching your videos as I eat. I’m under a decade away from my retirement now. And I'm a little concerned about how I’ll spend my time. I’m building up quite stash of books, styrene model, and Lego kits to waste my declining years with. I have to say I’m a little uncomfortable about the end of what I’m used to and the beginning of what will become my new normal. But, being some old man fiddling around with projects in his room doesn’t seem so uncertain with you (Metaphorically) holding my hand. Thanks for your videos. Here’s to many more “Breakfasts with Adam” in the future.

@danielegray666 6 дней назад

I picked up the tubular mini heat gun (what I refer to as my heat dildo) a few years ago and it's just lives on the wall at my work bench. It stays plugged in. It's so convenient and controllable that I rarely get my industrial heat gun out any more even if sometimes it takes a bit longer to get a job done. perfect for heat shrink and flashing paint

@anthonysharp9136 6 дней назад

$2/year isn't bad if you use the blow dryer enough. After splurging on Knipex cobra pliers, I can say high quality tools are worth it if you grab them often enough.

@evangarner4523 5 дней назад

I use another type of heat gun at work pretty consistently, although we call it an air torch. It has controls for heat and airspeed, and gets hot enough to melt soft solder if you want to, although I've never used it for that. I think it also gets called a "hot air rework station" or "solder rework station". It's versatile enough to be the main source of heat at my bench.

@johnpatrickmcp 6 дней назад

I got one of those little tube heat guns on Adam's recommendation from one of his other videos. My main making is doing miniatures for wargaming and I love it. I use it mostly for drying paint and glue but I also have found I can use it to heat of plastic or resin pieces to make them soft enough to bend for custom positioning.

@NWGR 6 дней назад

I have the cordless dewalt and love it. It's been perfect for heat shrink and bending acrylic.

@Fynn-Victus 6 дней назад

Buster was my favorite mascot

@TehAlekzi 6 дней назад

My go to heat guns are definitely a corded one from a manufacturer I don't even know, because the one in the shop is so old and used it doesn't have any markings left. The only defining visual it has is the dark green color. The other I use on small spots and heat shrinks is that pen shaped, I guess it's some sort of torch, that doesn't produce open flame. It's great for really pin pointing heat towards something, but it will get pretty hot and will burn stuff if not careful.

@josephkrug8579 6 дней назад

I have a wagner heat gun that I got from home depot...it is the fancy one with the digital lcd that goes from 125F to 1300F and so far (not used it a ton) every time it has done exactly what I needed....it also has a built in stand with it so you can set it down without setting things on fire if you were using the super hot settings.

@dosesandmimoses 6 дней назад

I have a heater.. I wish it had a retractable stand for the cool down phase- or for moments when I need to use one or two hand(s) for holding pieces together.. then it can stand alone while under supervision. Great video

@dragontamer2613 4 дня назад

My grandfather has a very old con air hairdryer I believe he’s had it for 20 years I think

@mattlarson9897 6 дней назад

I am a Milwaukee guy. I love their 12v battery soldering iron for soldering wires inside of a car. I really really really wish that they made a small 12v heat gun for the specific purpose of applying heat shrink sleeves on wires. I don't need or want their large 18v heat gun to heat shrink a couple of wires under the dash of a car.

@ericolson326 6 дней назад

"Thank you for coming to my Temp Talk." 😁

@domosautomotive1929 6 дней назад

I have the Hercules heat gun from Harbor freight. Best feature is digital temperature adjustment from 120° F to 1200° F in 10° increments so you have better control if too much heat will cause a mission ending failure.

@suavebob 6 дней назад

I have that same Dewalt wired heat gun, I can confirm it is indeed good. I used it to crack a bolt free when working on my car (Dewalt impact 1/2" alone couldnt even shift it - In Scotland our cars get very rusty) - It worked surprisingly well. That being said, we have manly 240v in the UK, so our wired tools work a LOT better allowing us to be more productive/accomplish more, keep up America 😛 Yep, I am subtly needling in that last line but 99% of my statement is true.

@raysmith1376 6 дней назад

I don’t know how I made it till I was 50+ years old without a heat gun, but I finally decided I wanted to pick one up. I was going that night after work to get one from our local hardware store and while I was driving around for my job that day, I turned a corner in town and there was a heat gun with a cord coiled up around it laying in the middle of the road. Not a vehicle in sight to see where it came from. So I got a heat gun!!

@marksturgis3536 6 дней назад

For low power heat guns the Ungar/Weller 6966C is perfection. It has a price that reflects that perfection though. Nothing else is good enough for heat shrinking tubing in tight places where you can overheat stuff nearby. If you find one with the Ungar name on it instead of Weller it dates from the 90's. The one I own is between 30 & 40 years old, is identical to the ones being made now and it has never failed me. I'm all for using a cheaper tool when it does what I need to do for less money, but I consider this heat gun worth the 10x or more price premium over the standard imported mini heat gun.

@BryonHendrix-cs8tm День назад

Definitely want the low power option when using the shrink wrap for magazines and catalogs.

@eriequiet 6 дней назад

Look at the benzomatix butane soldering iron, you can screw the soldering iron tip off and there’s a flame converter, so you only get a pinky sized hot spot with no flame… a little mod to allow the adjustment valve to close more and it’s very adjustable

@Ranger7Studios 6 дней назад

I've had my Harbor Freight one for years and it's been pretty solid.

@TheNewJankyWorkshop 6 дней назад

I actually found out about and acquired one of those mini heat guns a few years ago when Beverly Downen ran that Grogu pram workshop, it was included with the kit! Absolutely love that thing!

@tomhorsley6566 6 дней назад

My Wagner corded heat gun has a "stand", but it also has the stiffest cord ever attached to anything. Unless you think ahead and arrange your workspace so the cord is trailing perfectly straight behind where you are using the gun, then it will fall right over every time you try to use the "stand". Whenever possible I just use my little butane torch instead of the heat gun 🙂

@chiphill4856 6 дней назад

I also cannot stand a stiff cord that gets in the way and won't just lay down!

@jayandry3392 6 дней назад

Thanks I forgot I had the mini heat gun. It went into a drawer to die.😊 I need it for the last push when vacuum-forming.

@DavidRavenMoon 5 дней назад

I had an orange Harbor Freight heat gun for about 25 years. It finally died on me last year. I bought one of those small tubular heat guns, mostly for shrink tubing and warming epoxy. I need to get another large one. I built guitars and basses and make pickups. :)

@grendel1960a 6 дней назад

I have several of thesmall lighter fluid heat pens, these also do a small flame or soldering function, but they are perfect (with the diffuser grill) for heating up heat shrink tubing. and small brass and copper soldering work.

@johnhicks692 6 дней назад

I'm partial to the Master brand heatgun. you can adjust the airflow to adjust the heat.

@Thekitty0706fan 5 дней назад

When i was a rookie when it came to tools i remember i wanted to try and fix the gun from a model figure i bought. Thing is though he had one of those floorlayer heat guns that goes up to like 900 degrees Celsius. Huge surprise it melted the whole gun i wanted to fix. Had to buy a replacement online, and also a heatgun of my own that was less overkill.

@RockGaudreau 6 дней назад

I have one of those small underpowered heat guns and it's fabulous for heat shrink and getting stringing off of 3D prints.

@LiqdPT 5 дней назад

That last wand heat gun, I have a hook attachment for mine that makes it GREAT for heatshrink. Puts the heat right there where I want it.

@TheRockybulwinkle 6 дней назад

For me the best heat gun has been a hot air rework station, I use Atten ST-862D

@rebgates 6 дней назад

I was in Chicago and met you Adam, with my brother

@OG_The_Origonal_Grandpa 6 дней назад

I'm a 35-year electrician and the worst I've ever been hurt on a job was a heat gun. The guy using it rolled the cord up on the handle like it was a cooled off tool and I snatched it to by the barrel while it was still in the 500 degree range. There is no pain like a fucking burn.

@randomvariablenj 4 дня назад

+1 to the others with Steinel. Got the battery powered one, though it does require a Metabo CAS battery (it refuses to operate on battery adapters).

@Rembrant65 5 дней назад

Temperature and humidity. Show of hands, major set back on a project due to temperature. Even when you know it's an issue it can bite. It affects everything, just to varying degrees.

@ares395 5 дней назад

I want a heat gun like the first one - with adjustable temperature, hopefully with a good range of temps - and adjustable air flow in the trigger, just how you can adjust drill speed. That would be the ultimate heat gun for me. Of course with no mushy buttons or a LED display just to make it more expensive and fancy... gimmie a good dial with temps embedded on it so I won't have to struggle to figure out things when the display gets caked etc.

@brettdavis387 6 дней назад

I made my 1st foam armor pieces using a bic blow torch to shape it. Took a good minute to figure out how far to hold it from the foam to not burn it. lol

@PianosAndLightsabers 6 дней назад

I've had an 80s Black and Decker corded heat gun for ages, two heat settings on a rocker switch and i've always hated how top heavy it is. the tip gets so hot I have to place it on my basement floor right after I use it!

@leemarsh3569 6 дней назад

Heat gun is great for removing the covering film on acrylic sheets

@gardenogauge 6 дней назад

Steinel HL2020El - The Rolls Royce of heat guns, amazing temperature control even at low temps

@SocksAndPuppets 6 дней назад

"It's crappiness is it's defining factor." Sometimes I feel the same :p

@Aardvark613 6 дней назад

Harbor Freight makes a DeWalt plug-in knock off. It works really well. I have a Uniden classic style. It's 20 years old.

@TheBalunStormhands 6 дней назад

I was at a game and comic books store while it was raining. And the guy behind the counter was using shrink wrap on some boxes. Some girl comes in and sees he's got a blow dryer and asks if she could borrow it. He hands it over, she looks at it and apparently thinking it is a hair dryer and not a heat gun, flips all the switches to high and blasts her hair. Everyone shouts "NO!" but too late because she singes her hair pretty badly.

@Artista_Frustrado 5 дней назад

i'm not saying they should get ODB, but an One Day Build video of Adam upgrading the Heatgun with the weird buttons & the one with the short cord would be something i would watch

@legoseanland1760 6 дней назад

In my 30+ year career in paint, I’ve found the Conair 1875 to be a freakin workhorse. Hotter, you burn the paint sample. I had one at my shop for 10 years til it finally died, replaced it with the same (newer) model

@georgejones5287 6 дней назад

My mother used to have a hair dryer like the yellow bird but it was white. It lasted forever

@dosesandmimoses 6 дней назад

Reminds me of the space balls scene in the desert luggage lol

@steveeason2207 5 дней назад

I'm actually in the market for a heat gun, mainly for heating guitar binding prior to bending. I've been using a blow torch for every application that needs a heat gun so i have melted and set fire to my fair share of things that I didn't need to set fire to! The cordless could be the one I think

@Platypus2048 6 дней назад

When you say "heat gun stories" it reminds me of Penn Jillettes awesome blow dryer story. If you haven't heard it, go look it up! It's awesome, he told it on his podcast years and years ago and Penn tells it in the way only Penn can.

@marktadlock5428 6 дней назад

Adam, you need to go to the consumer electronics show in January in Las Vegas. You will feel like a kid in a candy store. And to one of the tool shows for Milwaukee or Dewalt as well, again a kid in a candy store.

@peternewson2275 6 дней назад

I used a heatgun to "fix" a ue22 error in the digital signal processor of an pioneer receiver. The dsp had a known issue that would brick it and it can be (temporarily) remedied by heating the chip

@danielclements439 6 дней назад

First! love the content Adam thank you for all that you do.

@MittensOnly 6 дней назад

Shout out to Ghost Buster

@schoonzuinig 6 дней назад

I bought my Steinel hl 2010 (now 2020) because it was a great deal, not for being cheap. It certainly was overkill to expected use (stripping paint). However because there is so much control I use it all the time for many different things. I don't think I have another tool that is so much more used than intended purpose. Quite expensive in the USA though.

@marktadlock5428 6 дней назад

I found using an old hair dryer used for drying women hair with rollers because the dryer is adjustable. And they are cheap at thrift stores