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Re: Strip: Heat gun use in a dusty shop
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 4/24/2011, 12:17 am
In Response To: Strip: Heat gun use in a dusty shop (Stephen Troy)

: The shop I am stripping in has a pretty good amount of sawdust in
: it most of the time. I started using a heat gun today to bend
: strips for the tail of the baidarka I'm building, and looking at
: the background of the path of the heat gun looked like it could
: be a fire hazard.

: Any guidelines of safe heat gun use when it comes to being in a
: area with lot of flammables?

Hi Stephen,

First, I should mention for everyone else's benifit that this is a rental space you've got, it's not your own shop and others are working in it while you're there too.

Heat guns generally don't throw heat very far, by the time it's 3' away from the gun it's only warm air. Just don't aim it at a pile of sawdust :)

Bill H.

Messages In This Thread

Strip: Heat gun use in a dusty shop
Stephen Troy -- 4/23/2011, 4:47 pm
Re: Strip: Heat gun use in a dusty shop
Mike Savage -- 4/23/2011, 4:56 pm
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Randy Echtinaw -- 4/23/2011, 4:58 pm
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Malcolm Schweizer -- 4/23/2011, 8:54 pm
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Randy Echtinaw -- 4/24/2011, 8:32 am
Re: Strip: Heat gun use in a dusty shop
Bill Hamm -- 4/25/2011, 12:15 am
Re: Strip: Heat gun use in a dusty shop
Randy Echtinaw -- 4/25/2011, 7:51 am
Re: Strip: Heat gun use in a dusty shop
Bill Hamm -- 4/26/2011, 1:39 am
Re: Strip: Heat gun use in a dusty shop
JohnK -- 4/23/2011, 6:09 pm
Re: Strip: Heat gun use in a dusty shop
ancient kayaker -- 4/23/2011, 9:06 pm
Re: Strip: Air-borne wood dust
Don T -- 4/28/2011, 7:25 am
Re: Strip: Air-borne wood dust
Bill Hamm -- 4/28/2011, 7:58 am
Re: Strip: Heat gun use in a dusty shop
Bill Hamm -- 4/24/2011, 12:17 am
Re: Strip: Heat gun use in a dusty shop
Bill Hamm -- 4/24/2011, 12:20 am
Re: Strip: Heat gun use in a dusty shop *PIC*
Sean Dawe -- 4/24/2011, 8:43 pm
Re: Strip: Heat gun use in a dusty shop
Farback -- 4/24/2011, 9:16 pm
Re: Strip: Heat gun use in a dusty shop
Bill Hamm -- 4/25/2011, 12:17 am
Re: Strip: Heat gun use in a dusty shop
Al Edie -- 4/25/2011, 9:58 pm