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I myself don't have a heat gun, but while I'm working on the shrink tubing,
I sure kick myself for not having one. Where space allows, I use a careful
wave of a Zippo lighter (they smell, but they produce a cooler flame than
disposable butane lighters), and where space is tight, I do use the
soldering iron technique, which is slow, and I usually end up twisting and
turning the module in mid-air to get the heat to rise properly. Your iron's
temperature and design has a lot to do with how successful this will be.

(I'm a little surprised at those who answered that most MOTM kits don't use
heat shrink tubing, because a quick glance behind my panels reaffirmed my
memory of the ∗vast majority∗ of my MOTM modules having tubing on the
off-PCB pots. [?])



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Do I need a heat gun to shrink the tubing