Hot Melt Glue Gun

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Permalink Reply by Stephen on February 3, 2010 at 6:42am

Got a crain, kind old now but it does what it is supposed to do. When I laid out a house, say 150 yds or so with seams in every room I never had to wait for it to heat back up. Just got me some Kool Glide Kool Sticks to try out. Don't have a Kool Glide though.

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Permalink Reply by Chuck Coffer on February 3, 2010 at 10:35am

The Orcon gun was the best I ever used. You can get them from Grainger, but they cost twice what Orcon was getting for them. It's an ass-kicking glue gun, though.

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Permalink Reply by Melvin Schmaltz on February 3, 2010 at 5:42pm

May try the Orcon saw another site that has them also.

The Kool Glide sticks are all I use now I like the low temp required to get them melted.

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Permalink Reply by Chuck Coffer on February 3, 2010 at 6:28pm

When you put low temp sticks in that gun it's like a garden hose. You can do whatever you want with it. Cool thing is it doesn't want to run on like the little pos guns. It gets so hot and is so big, you never made that pressure from the back end trying to get the damn thing to make that last drop you needed.

I highly recommend it. I have my construction people using them too. That gun plus Kool sticks is a serious problem solver.

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Permalink Reply by Stephen on February 3, 2010 at 7:40pm

Reply by Melvin Schmaltz 1 hour ago
May try the Orcon saw another site that has them also.

The Kool Glide sticks are all I use now I like the low temp required to get them melted.

That new Orcon is a big one looks like. I have not seen that one. And I didn't know the Kool Stics were low temp either, neato. Len told me that the best thing about them is that they set up fast, and the worst thing is that they set up fast. :)

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Permalink Reply by Melvin Schmaltz on February 3, 2010 at 7:54pm

They sure seem to work best with the Koolglide seam iron anyway and I use them for gluing outside corners when I do cove base, among all the other uses.

I must be the only guy in North Dakota that is using them, Hank's Specialties in Fargo told me it would be two months or more before they would have any in. So I said "screw it" and ordered 60 sticks from their competitor Shag Tools in Bloomington, MN.

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Permalink Reply by Stephen on February 3, 2010 at 7:58pm

I just want one of them irons for floating plank repairs. Maybe I can figure a way to do one with the glue sticks

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Permalink Reply by Melvin Schmaltz on February 3, 2010 at 8:43pm

I haven't had a real need for the ultility tape but I am going to order some in the future and do some experiments with it, they say its good for starting rows of tile in showers. But this seaming iron puts a whole new dimension to carpet repairs.

I have used the glue sticks as a temporary hold on laminate edgings until the Chemrex takes hold.


http://www.shagtools.com/tools/Seam-Master-Kool-Sticks-Seam-Sealer-...

http://www.shagtools.com/Category/Kool-Glide.cfm

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Permalink Reply by Stephen on February 4, 2010 at 6:57am

Yea, I'm kinda on the fence about using it for starting rows on anything, wet or dry. Has not been tested long enough and me no like being guinea pig.

I am glad they finally fixed the thing. Last time I checked the sundry places here one still had the original tape which had problems the other had none.

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