Mini Hot Air Gun, Portable Mini Heat Gun for DIY Embossing Shrink Wrapping Drying Paint, 300W Multi Function Electrical Heat Tool

Worked great and cheap

I've had this heat gun only a couple of months, so time will tell how durable it is, but I've been quite happy with it so far. I bought it for crafts: dry embossing (I was holding papers over the heat of an oil lamp or stove burner--which does work, by the way--and trying to create other effects in crafts that require quick drying. But given that I can't find my blow dryer (which I haven't used for 20 years and have stored with my hardware and tools, given that it was more useful for home projects than for my hair) and needed to blow dry a litter of pups after a bath recently, I held this heat gun far from them, fluffing their fur with the other hand, and it did an admirable job. And if I ever should for whatever reason need to blow dry my own hair, I'll use this from a similar distance. So it's a lot more versatile for my needs than would be a hair dryer.It's easy to hold, easy to use, and I can imagine it coming in handy in any number of animal or home emergencies. But it has already come in handy in a variety of non-emergency situations, and I'm happy with it. Just have some common sense--be careful about distance from the object it's focused on, and don't use it continually for an extended time. Given the bargain price, I'm not expecting to ride it hard, so to speak, and I don't think higher expectations are reasonable. But it has never quit working for me so as to cool off, and I'm familiar enough with a wide variety of tools to know how to be respectful of them.

Compare what you can pay for other types of heat guns, and the sizes of other kinds of equipment. Realize too, that to get anything even smaller, you'd pay a premium because of the small size requires better engineering and materials. They could have made this a little more powerful and a little larger and it could still sell under $20 like this one. If they made it a lot bigger and a lot more powerful it could cost a lot more. Same power and smaller, would cost more. They struck a balance here - a small heat gun that works great on little jobs, doesn't take up much room, and is bargain priced. I'd be afraid to use a heating appliance that was cheaper than this. This is a great little tool, but you've got to expect it has its limitations. Works great for small shrink tube operations, reasonably quick without getting scary hot. It's going to be tedious to do large jobs with this, but it does what it is obviously designed to do - don't expect to get an amazing tool that delivers a $100 or $200 value. You get quite fairly what you pay for with this tool, I'm very pleased with it.

Repaired a couple cold solder on pcbs. Repaired plastic wheels and shrank heat shrink. If you work it too long it takes a timeout.

This is the 2nd one I purchased. It works great. I have one in my electronics tool box and use it all the time to replace phone parts. I kept having to steal it from my electronics box for other uses so I purchased a 2nd gun for my wiring tool box. It works great for melting heatshrink on wire terminals. In the past I used butane lighters or matches to accomplish this. So much easier and safer with this heat gun. I also used it on a recent pneumatic air line install. I used it to gently heat the end of the PE air line to make easier to attach the air line to the barb fitting. In the past I would use a mug of boiling hot water to soak the airline in. This is faster, safer and more precise. I may buy another for my plumbing tool box!

Worked well for a while. Heats up quickly and doesn’t blow too hard for what I need. I’ve had it for a little less than a year and I use it for my small resin business. Once I started doing larger pours/multiple pieces at once, the heat gun started overheating. I assume it’s a fail safe so the gun doesn’t melt itself; the heat gun turns off (I hear an audible click inside) for a while as it cools down. Problem is, it takes forever too cool off before it works again. Seeing as how my resin has a 30-45 min work time and I need the heat gun to work, it’s super inconvenient. I usually keep the heat gun on for max 3 minutes, turn it off for 5-10 and repeat. Seems to be getting worse each “overheat” time. It still works alright, just not well enough for a long while.

Tool does the job sometimes, and others it’s difficult to turn on like if it had a bad contact, other than that it’s ok.

While I don't use it for large jobs it's perfect for around the house. It's cord is a bit short but nothing an extension cord couldn't fix (already had a few. I use it for my electronic repair adhesives and my wife loves it for her crafts. And the covered head is perfect, there's no worries about our son burning himself near as much when being around us while we works since he's always trying to help lol. The only thing is my wife's hands aren't as large as mine so it's not the worst to hold but it's definitely more comfortable in my larger hands