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Old 11-08-2005 | 09:29 AM
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elenasgrumpy
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Default RE: Heat Guns for covering

I gotta agree with Chuck on this one. I too have a paint stripping gun. Low temp is 650 degrees. While I have managed to get away with it here & there, for the most part I fail. There seems to be a very fine line between hot enough to shrink, and too hot. Turning it all brittle & hard. When it does start to shrink an area I'm working on, it actually wrinkles the section next to it. This causes a snowball effect for me. As I try to straighten those wrinkles back out, now it's allready turned hard & brittle, then I either end up pulling it away from it's seems, or just burning a hole in it. I won't throw it out because it is a perfectly good paint stripper, but I won't be ruining anymore plane covering material with it!


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