Heat Gun Overview
Heat guns are also known as hot air guns that are similar to that of a hairdryer and are an electric hand tool. Its working is also like a hairdryer. It pulls the hair into the body of a heat gun with the help of an operating fan. It drives the hairs across the electric heating element and brings them out from a nozzle.
Heat guns are very light in weight and easy to use. Its hot air flame is less hazardous as compared to that of the naked flame. But the flammable object catches their fire. Their flame can break the glass.
There are different types of heat guns which are used at different temperature and purposes.
Construction of heat gun
Heat guns are designed by using the electrical heat element or fame of glass to pull out the hot hair so that it can meet the specific temperature. Its nozzle is made up of a simple tube so that it can operate safely.
Uses
There are a lot of features of heat guns, but some of them are listed below one by one.
- Heat guns are used to remove the crayon from the walls by warming the wax. Sometimes, they also work as a waxing jacket by providing soaked in finished. You can also use them to clean a grill because it loses the debris.
- Most heat guns are used in physics, materialistic science, and engineering, and in other laboratories. They can be used to strip the paint and shrink the heat tubing. They are helpful in shrinking the wrapping packaging. Some of the heat guns help us to sit on a bench while using them, so, that both of the hands can use the hot air.
- Heat guns also help us to bend and weld the plastics elements. They are also used to soften the adhesiveness of materials. They can be used to dry the damped wood. They are very popular to thaw the frozen pipes.
Nowadays, heat guns have replaced the old fashioned paraffin and gas enclosed in a bottle, but these old-fashioned bottle gasses are still used in tool kit where the power is not easily available.
Features
Some of the features of heat guns are the following.
- The first feature described here is wattage, which is taken almost 1000W to 2000W, which is used to measure the power of the heat gun.
- The next one is known as a control switch, which is a safety feature and is used to switch the power on and off.
- The other one is called a temperature setting. Its lower edge bottom features are mostly used.
- The airflow setting feature is used to make the tool more versatile and increase the efficiency of the speed.
- The next feature is its nozzle having the specific uses. They are available separately and have different types. Its nozzle has further featured like reducer reflector and flat nozzle etc.
Pros
There are a lot of advantages of heat guns, but some of them are listed below one by one.
- Heat guns are used to repair the phone screen by extracting the damaged parts of its screen.
- Heat guns have external uses like bending plastic, welding of plastics, adhesive purposes.
- Heat guns have the ability to remove the undesired paint on the walls of your room or house.
- They are also used for the repairing of objects and can join the broken parts of objects.
Cons
Some of the cons of heat guns are the following.
- Heat guns are a little bit expensive.
- It can be used only occasionally for simple jobs.
- The quite cheap heat guns have limited features that reduce their efficiency.
Conclusion
From all of the above discussion, it is clear that heat guns have a lot of power used and is beneficial for in different fields of life.