I'm sitting here building 3D printers all day,

I’m sitting here building 3D printers all day, and only just now figured out “duh, I can 3D print a heat gun holder”. I’ve been dropping it on the ground. :[

3 hours later, voila! You have a heat gun holder and minus one printer in the build queue :wink:

haha. When I had a problem that I mention on FB, the typical response from friends now is “why aren’t you printing one?”

That’s a nice looking copper/brown filament. Where’s it from?

@Michael_Hohensee it’s black; just angle of the picture gives it that look. The lights illuminating it are meant to be “natural” yellow.

<me: looks at heat gun on floor>
Crap!

Nice lighting. :slight_smile: Personally, I keep my heatguns upside down on the floor, resting on their built-in metal stands, so they can get my shoes on fire. I hadn’t thought about mounting them on my bench so they can set my thighs on fire!

@Carlton_Dodd Maybe Anthony Morris can start selling heat gun holders?

How hot is the heat gun when you put it in the holder? Any melt hazards there?

@NathanielStenzel
Heat guns are generally pretty cool on the outside, except the metal tip.

Inexperienced RepRap user here, puzzled by the heat gun’s purpose?

@Normand_Chamberland heat shrink around solder joints.

Ah! Didn’t think of that. Thanks.

Wow, now I feel real lazy. I stopped even plugging in a heat gun and just roll the barrel of my soldering iron around it. Ha

@Brandon_Satterfield , heat gun ends up working better, plus we heat shrink some large diameter stuff (2.5cm diameter) around DSUB plugs and so forth that a soldering iron barrel just wouldn’t shrink all of.

I use an SMD heat gun — generally more focused than a paintstripper.

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