Bostik Glue Gun

Hot melt use on board

Heres one use:
When making soldered joints on wires, or soldering terminations etc.
1 slide on heat shrink sleeve and put it out of heats way.
2 solder the joint
3 apply a thin layer of hot melt glue layer over the bare soldered section.
4 wait for it to cool down.
5 slide heatshrink over the section and apply heat.

The heat will melt the glue again at same time it shrinks the sleeve. it will extrude the excess out and you will know you have a water resistant soldered joint!

Step 4 is crucial as, if you are impatient like me you slide the heat shrink over too soon and the residual heat in the glue shrinks the material befor you have it positioned properly..........
There may be other uses on board, but thats why i own a hot melt glue gun.
cheers
 
I've used one for tacking things into place before doing the permanent fastening - it doesn't matter if it fails thereafter. Mind you, I glued the brim back onto a bowler hat once...

Rob.
 
Very handy when making up a template to fit a difficult shape, e.g.new locker to hull side - just use lots of small bits of thin wood and glue them together. Much easier than continuously cutting something a bit, offering it up, finding it doesn't fit exactly ...repeat ad infinitum...
 
greenalien said:
Very handy when making up a template to fit a difficult shape, e.g.new locker to hull side - just use lots of small bits of thin wood and glue them together...
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Yes, I forgot about this. I made a cardboard template that was undersized, then stuck on bits of cardboard to fit the profile.

Note to OP, when you buy glue sticks, make sure you check the size, I think they come in 6/8/10/11/12 mm diameter. No need to buy Bostik ones, just look on eBay.
 
I have a hot melt glue gun but I have never used it.

Are there different glue sticks for different purposes or are they all the same?
 
John the kiwi said:
Heres one use:
When making soldered joints on wires, or soldering terminations etc.
1 slide on heat shrink sleeve and put it out of heats way.
2 solder the joint
3 apply a thin layer of hot melt glue layer over the bare soldered section.
4 wait for it to cool down.
5 slide heatshrink over the section and apply heat.

The heat will melt the glue again at same time it shrinks the sleeve. it will extrude the excess out and you will know you have a water resistant soldered joint!

Step 4 is crucial as, if you are impatient like me you slide the heat shrink over too soon and the residual heat in the glue shrinks the material befor you have it positioned properly..........
There may be other uses on board, but thats why i own a hot melt glue gun.
cheers
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Wow now I used to make up soldered joints without the glue stick stuff and they were good to at least 600 feet without the glue how deep will yours go?
 
VicS said:
I see guns at 190C and guns at 130C ... mine is 170C !
They dont seem to mention the melting point in the specs for the glue sticks :confused: ...
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Your gun will be fine with any glue sticks of the correct diameter, but on heat sensitive substrates you may get distortion. The main difference in the guns is the throughput, the main differences in the sticks are the viscosity and the open time.

Some years ago I bought an industrial gun at a bargain price, then left it switched on for a week and burnt it out. I was so used to its capability that I had to buy another.

My main use now is sealing cardboard boxes to take on the airplane to the boat. It is perfect to make internal baffles to stop stuff crashing together.
 
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