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Whats the best way to melt hot glue? other then a gun.

A microwave? Alternatively you could fill a pot with water then place a soup can(label removed) with hot glue sticks in it, in the water and bring the water to a boil on a stove and the glue sticks should melt, then pour them into your 'mold'. basically casting hot glue.

i dont see why you wouldnt use a gun. if your just gonna straight up melt it, i guess a microwave would work. but if you plan to use it on things to hold it together and what not, theres really not much other then a glue gun. a soldering iron might be ok but very difficult

A real double boiler, instead of the ghetto double boiler described above.

Hey im very proud of my ghetto double boiler, real ones are expensive.

A frying pan would work well.

I use a heat gun personally. Works well only takes a few seconds. I also use it to make PVC sheet.

use a small pie plate (so you dont wreck any pan ) and melt it

tylerthetatertosser wrote:use a small pie plate (so you dont wreck any pan ) and melt it

We all know what happens when you combine Tyler, a pie plate, a heat source, and um... something to be melted. (inside joke)

rednecktatertosser wrote:Hey im very proud of my ghetto double boiler, real ones are expensive.

Double boiler....real.....expensive? WTF, when I was a Cub Scout my dad and I had to make a cake and part of my cake was a chocolate boy scout sign. we took two pots and nested them inside each other and put water in the lower one. Work like a charm. thats about as real a double boiler as your gonna get.....and it was free!. anyways, why is this topic in combustion forum and not the random or unrelated forum?

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oh and red neck, if you put a METAL SOUP CAN of which I believe most are made of in to the MICROWAVE it will make pseudoLIGHTNING which will ultimately kill your personal radiation chamber. LOL just givin you a hard time.

spudzinger wrote:

rednecktatertosser wrote: Merged:
oh and red neck, if you put a METAL SOUP CAN of which I believe most are made of in to the MICROWAVE it will make pseudoLIGHTNING which will ultimately kill your personal radiation chamber. LOL just givin you a hard time.

Lol but its a free light show while doing it It'd be worth it Just do the pot or pie tin in a frying pan bit. WIll work good.

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rednecktatertosser wrote:Hey im very proud of my ghetto double boiler, real ones are expensive.

Double boiler....real.....expensive? WTF, when I was a Cub Scout my dad and I had to make a cake and part of my cake was a chocolate boy scout sign. we took two pots and nested them inside each other and put water in the lower one. Work like a charm. thats about as real a double boiler as your gonna get.....and it was free!. anyways, why is this topic in combustion forum and not the random or unrelated forum?

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oh and red neck, if you put a METAL SOUP CAN of which I believe most are made of in to the MICROWAVE it will make pseudoLIGHTNING which will ultimately kill your personal radiation chamber. LOL just givin you a hard time.

I never said to put a can in the microwave... I said put a can containing hot glue sticks into a pot of boiling water. time to learn about the joys of reading, no?

i know that what i use is a heat gun.......... it works perfectly. in fact, i had a piston come out 100% seethrough. kinda cool.

just make sure if youre using a heat gun to have something metal for your mold. a heat gun just melts PVC like butter.

you could also put a tin can full of glue stick pellets on the stove on low heat for a few minutes..............

rednecktatertosser wrote: I never said to put a can in the microwave... I said put a can containing hot glue sticks into a pot of boiling water. time to learn about the joys of reading, no?

Where do you live that soup cans are made from a material other than metal?

By using the term can you imply it's metal....

Michael

When the hell did i say cans werent made of metal?? BTW i live in Texas, where cans are made of metal