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a hairdryer that went to war college and never came home.
means A handheld electric tool that blasts a focused stream of very hot air, used to strip paint, shrink tubing, soften adhesives, or thaw frozen pipes.
from A plain compound of "heat" and "gun" — "heat" from Old English hǣtu, "gun" from Middle English gunne, which itself may trace back to a 14th-century siege engine playfully nicknamed Gunilda (a Norse woman's name). "Gun" long ago stopped meaning only firearms and now happily attaches to anything that points and projects — grease gun, glue gun, spray gun, staple gun. The heat gun joined that family in the 20th century as industrial hot-air blowers shrank to handheld size, borrowing the silhouette and trigger of a pistol to aim a jet of scorching air.
- temperature
- Tops 1100°F, hot enough to melt aluminum
- hidden use
- Restorers revive faded plastic with one careful pass
- phone repair
- Loosens glued screens without cracking the glass
- vs blowtorch
- No flame, so no soot and less fire
- shrink wrap
- Industrial packaging seals tight under its hot breath
wagner spraytech heat gun — most popular consumer heat gun brand, used for paint removal and shrink wrapping
dewalt d26960k heat gun — professional-grade heat gun with dual temperature settings, widely used in construction