The heat gun has a variety of uses beyond stripping paint. It can be used for professional or personal projects. You must select a tool that meets your needs and provides nozzles that allow you to target the flow of hot air in a more or less concentrated way.
The uses of the heat gun
- Activation of adhesives for large surfaces.
- Light a barbecue.
- Repairing sporting goods: surfboards, plastic boats, etc.
- Heat-shrinkable assemblies for engine parts.
- Assembly of plastic tubes.
- Installation of decorative strips and rubber profiles to protect the paintwork of cars against scratches.
- Straighten deformed spark plugs.
- Brazing of gutters : Heat the area to be brazed with a reducing nozzle until it melts the brazing tin.
- Pond liners : to create a small pond in your garden, use leaves in coils and weld them together.
- Bodywork: the repair of sheet metal parts – with tin rods – as well as fiberglass parts.
- Wax: remove wax residue from candlesticks, tables and other supports.
- Heat all your small objects at home to make them malleable: shoe insoles, specific coatings for repairs, glues, bicycle rubber grips, etc.
- Heating of adhesive plastic films for the partial or complete covering of vehicles. The heat gun makes the adhesive malleable to fit the shape of the vehicle, while activating the adhesive.
- Open fireplaces for quick lighting of the fire.
- Chemistry when using your heat gun as a Bunsen burner.
- Wax the furniture.
- Gluing: hot melt adhesive is one of the most universal adhesives.
- Tile adhesive : for stripping tiles to which the adhesive is attached.
- Ropes: to repair frayed nylon ropes.
- Floor tiles: soften floor tiles to fit in corners or reliefs such as stair treads.
- Desoldering of defective electronic circuit components.
- Stripping of wooden windows.
- Hot air stripping of paints, varnishes, shop window adhesives, wallpapers, wooden furniture, etc.
- Peel off assemblies: decorative film, iron-on cabinet edge, PVC floor covering, labels, car stickers, etc.
- Unstrip and wax the skis.
- De-ice water pipes, icy stairs, car locks, freezers, etc.
- Stripping cables.
- Hot-swap PVC pipe or garden hose onto fittings.
- Melting tin.
- Shape all suitable materials by softening them.
- Solder the cable lugs.
- Fossils brought back from a walk : after having carefully cleaned them, the hot air allows to dry quickly without damaging these witnesses of the past.
- Moisture to be removed – especially on spark plugs – to restart machines.
- Industry: drying, preheating, heat shrinking and liquefaction.
- Instruments to be sterilized by veterinarians, especially for hoof treatment.
- Liquefaction to melt tin, tar, bitumen or wax.
- Smoothing of leather, for example for car seats that become deformed over time.
- Smooth out self-adhesive films and remove blisters.
- Glasses to be adapted to the morphology of the wearer.
- Model makers: the heat gun allows to bendthewood or to cover the bearing surfaces of the aircraft models by being very attentive to the temperature of the nozzle.
