>I used one of these for awhile. It got way hotter than a electronics heat
>gun, and I melted some insulation sometimes when I wan't careful. Also it
>died a horrible death when the motor burned up. (Now using a $70 Weller heat
>gun).
In the toolbox at work we get these red hairdryer looking things that
cost $100+. They work okay but take a while to heat up and forever
to cool down. Plus they don't flow enough air in my opinion. I heatshrink
a lot of NT735 bundled coax (12 mini coax cables) as well as Mogami
16pair 2934. The more expensive guns take forever to shrink the industrial
grade heatshrink we use. Same goes for heatshrinking all the connections
on my patchbays. I'll agree that for minature and light duty heatshrink
jobs the more expensive guns are probably better. But that's what
the "low" setting on my cheap guns are for.......
-Cary "who has heatshrunk more wires than he can count"
http://www.retrosynth.com/studio/wiring