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Vlad 02-12-2016 11:11 AM

Kitchen matches
 
Strike anywhere matches work just fine. :)

BillL 02-12-2016 12:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by flyboy1963 (Post 1053467)
...favourite defector?????

6 September 1976, when a Soviet Air Defence Forces pilot, Lt. Viktor Belenko, defected, landing his MiG-25P at Hakodate Airport in Japan

...just sayin'! :D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25

Yeah - that is the guy I was trying to recall - the wing skins rusted overnight, they were steel!

Canadian_JOY 02-13-2016 05:56 AM

I use a cheapo from the hardware store. I'm sure it's made in China, and it certainly didn't come with any form of heat deflector. That's where the homebuilder gene kicked in. A soup can, a pair of snips and a couple of minutes of my time produced a heat deflector that I hold in place with a pair of cheap hemostats.

I can slide the deflector behind a single wire that's pulled slack in a bundle, and advantage I hadn't anticipated when trying to go this "cheapskate" route.

I used to have one of the old red metal-cased Master heat guns, but it and all its accessories just "walked" out of my toolbox one day, never to be seen again. I still miss that heat gun, but will never spend the same money to replace it. As has been pointed out in this thread, the cheap heat guns will do the trick.

Oh, as for shrinking heatshrink tubing the "wrong" way... for years I've used the barrel of my soldering iron for that task when I couldn't use a heat gun. It works. It's NOT rocket science!

gnuse 02-13-2016 07:37 AM

I have used my TopFlite gun for over 20 years now. It has served my model airplane needs and even more shrink wrap tasks.


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