Considering the relatively small amount of heat-gunning we need with these
kits, if you're just doing MOTM and the odd DIY project, I think the Radio
Shack "baby" heat gun is just fine. It's basically a Bic lighter without the
wheel as a fuel source, encased and feeding a heating element. You pull a
trigger and the element ignites and glows. It comes with an attachable
shield, and you can easily control it. I've never scorched anything with it;
just shrunk the tubing.
And it's really cheap.
The soldering iron is a pretty bad idea. If only once you slip, you may burn
right through the insulation of an adjoining wire, or leave an unattractive
melt-groove in a pot or jack. If you slip with the gun, no big deal.
Maybe someday I'll be fancy like Paul and get an Alpha-Fit, but for now I'll
save those pennies for another module ;)
David.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Schreiber [mailto:synth1@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 10:14 PM
> To: MOTM listserv
> Subject: [motm] Heat Shrink
>
>
> I ∗do not∗ recommend using anything BUT a heat gun to shrink the
> tubing. All
> of the suggestions
> sound like potential damaging to other components.
>
> For info on my fav, the Alpha Fit Gun-3:
>
> www.alphawire.com
>
> click on product catalog, go to page 125. Then, click on the Distributors
> tag on the left. Type in your state
> and look at the choices.
>
> It is true recent kits didn't inclue heat shrink on the panel wire. But I
> always use it on pots AND switches
> on assembled modules. Look for more heat shrink in future kits! The size I
> use is 3/32" polyfin 2:1 shrink.
>
> Side note: When I first was doing MOTM system design, I got a
> legal pad and
> wrote across the top of the page:
> WHAT BOB MOOG DIDN"T HAVE.
>
> #1 thing I thought of: heat-shrink tubing!
>
> Paul S.
>
>
>
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