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

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.

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.

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!

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

I bought this and some solder shrink wrap wire connectors in order to fix the radio wiring on my truck. It worked fantastic. The wiring goes through the shrink wrapped ends until it is centered in the solder area. Apply the heat gun to shrink it all down and you end up with a very nice looking waterproof wiring job. I will never wire anything with the old style twist connectors again. As far as this heat gun specifically though, it was about as hot as a hair dryer and about as noisy as one, but directs the heat to a small area better. The pictures are before and after I finished re-wiring the radio harness.

Is a very good size for small projects but also can be used for almost anything. Especially when I use it for Ipads and tablet repair including phones, I can heat the borders to remove the screens and not need to worry that I'm going to damage the internal parts. The only cons is that doesn't have temperature control and I have to be very careful to not burn anything inside. I have used it for other hobbies and works su[per fine.

Love this thing! I’ve had over a year+ and I still use it. Be careful handling this heat gun it actually works and heats up quickly!

This heat gun works fine , I've used it quite a few times for heat shrink and to remove stuck on heatsinks on CPUs . The problem is that the cord is so short I end up working on the ground every time I use it because it won't reach from the socket near the floor to the top of my workbench where , strangely enough , I like to work on things . The cord is exactly 34 inches long , not even 3 feet . That would be fine for a countertop kitchen appliance , for a handheld corded tool it's a joke . For comparison my electric drill has an 8 foot cord and my Dremel has a 6 foot cord .