Anyone have a hot glue gun they like. What glue for what purpose?

[David King]

Tell me, please.

[rjb]

High temp/ high strength glue sticks with 25 sec working time, heated with cheap butane torch.
For installing leather saxophone pads into brass pad cups.
Well, you did ask.

[the great waldo]

Use a good quality contact adhesive.

Cheers

Andrew

[Joe Gwinn]

The industrial glue guns (not sold in hardware stores) are far better than the retail stuff, but are expensive.

There is a wide variety of gun types and glue types.

You will need to narrow the search by laying out what the intended uses are. And the volume.

[rjb]

Use a good quality contact adhesive.

I guess that advice was for me.
Contact cement is traditionally used for corks.
Pads are traditionally installed with melted stick shellac; you want some "give" so you can "float" the pads.

But trying to introduce some pickup-related content:
I don't do this, but I think DiMarzio fills the back of Model P pickups with some type of hot glue.
I think it holds the pickup in the cover and secures the lead wires (which are soldered to the coils with no other strain relief).

[Joe Gwinn]

There is a kind of hot-glue that is used for potting things. This may be what is being used. Much faster, cheap material, low waste, no messy cleanup.

[tedmich]

at home I love the black glue sticks for tolex repair
https://www.parts-express.com/black-...-1034--360-379
with a HF cheapie gun, but at work we have a McMaster Carr 7518A18 ($143.19) that is a beast (100w!) that starts up fast and goes all day.

[big_teee]

I used to use a hot glue called ferrule tight for gluing arrow inserts in aluminum shafts.
It was reheatable, and worked great, and came in a stick.
I used a small propne torch, to apply it.
T

[John_H]

I quit using hot glue for anything after I moved to the middle of the Mojave Desert.

[David King]

I picked up a Franklin Hy-purformer gun a few years ago on CL. It uses PU cartridges which are permanent and high strength. They come in various thicknesses and kick at different speeds, 30 sec to 2 mins or so. Unfortunately they are expensive and shelf life is 6 months. Open life is maybe 30 days. Totally impractical unless you are trying to bond something permanently that would be awkward to clamp up. The gun doesn't have a heater so it's essentially cordless but the base station heats up a thermal mass inside the gun which stays warm for a minute or two.

From the posts so far it doesn't sound like many folks are using hot glue in their pickup making operations. Thanks for the info!

[jonson]

A few more of us David probably do. Mine is a Tec 820-12 which can go up to 195c and finds uses all the time. Great on low temp to tempory tack things in place as the glue can then be peeled away after anything permanent has done the trick but with black potting compound sticks it's a good alternative to potting with epoxy and much quicker.

[David King]

I found this 100W one that looks promising: Amazon.com: Surebonder PRO2-100 100-Watt High Temperature Industrial Glue Gun, Black: Home Improvement
The price is right and you can get different tips for it.