Originally posted by Capt Jim
With all due respect for previously submitted opinions, I submit that cured epoxy does not soften under a heat gun,
I have never heard of such a process as you describe.
and as for a heat gun....you can make it hot, very hot, and with enough heat you may even succeed in making it burn, (not recomended)..but you will not soften it like a thermoset plastic.
Try it. It works. I am building a full scale plane too. It is right in the plans from Rutan about painting it white, because the suns heat will soften the epoxy and deform things. That is why we oven cure epoxy products. Once it hits a high temp, it will take that temp again to soften it. Don't mean to blow you out of the water, but facts is facts.