| 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!
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