I had an Idea?

[wassupdoc]

I had an idea when making toast this morning, as you do.

I am planning on re-sleeving my power supply fully, and I stumbled upon the idea, that maybe- to save £40 or so on a heat gun- it would be possible to turn the toaster up to the hell-raiser

setting and hold the wire above it to shrink the heat-shrink, without burning it with a lighter.

What do you guys think?

 

[sheroo]

Go the whole hog and get yourself a drive bay toaster....

http://www.crazypc.com/other/misc/toast.htm

 

[wassupdoc]

Go the whole hog and get yourself a drive bay toaster....

http://www.crazypc.c.../misc/toast.htm

I agree that is f*****g awesome, but i'm serious XD

 

[ruthless_villain]

heatguns cost like £10 mate, well the lower end models do

 

[wassupdoc]

heatguns cost like £10 mate, well the lower end models do

really? still, beside the point

 

[dugdiamond]

the toaster may work, but it will stink to high heaven, and (correct me if i am wrong) but the black fumes (smoke) that will occur from doing this can be toxic.

using a heatgun blows the fumes away at the same time and doing its heating job, making the task less harmful

 

[wassupdoc]

the toaster may work, but it will stink to high heaven, and (correct me if i am wrong) but the black fumes (smoke) that will occur from doing this can be toxic.

using a heatgun blows the fumes away at the same time and doing its heating job, making the task less harmful

does the smoke and stink not only occur when you burn it? it stunk when I did my mates with a lighter, which is why I thought a toaster would be good, as there are no flames?

 

[nothingspecial]

Would a hairdryer do the trick? That was my first thought...

 

[dugdiamond]

most polyesters/polymers/plastics 'smoke' without the need to be ignited.

 

[wassupdoc]

Would a hairdryer do the trick? That was my first thought...

i think it takes like 15 minutes a piece XD

 

[wassupdoc]

most polyesters/polymers/plastics 'smoke' without the need to be ignited.

thanks for that, i'll probably just do it outside

 

[Azurite]

You can use a lighter....

 

[wassupdoc]

You can use a lighter....

I did last time and ended up burning the heatshrink on a few pieces, so I thought using just the heat off a toaster would be better than the actual flame of a lighter?

 

[Excalabur50]

Most toasters need bread in them before they will activate as a safety feature sounds to me like you'll be burning a lot of toast LOL

 

[leejc73]

You could use a toaster but it would take about 10 minutes for the heatshrink to get to the temperature where it starts shrinking because you can't concentrate the heat.

I have a halogen heater that I use when I forget to "borrow" a heatgun from work.

I wouldn't suggest this, because obviously you're sleeving power cables but because you can't use direct heat when you're applying heatshrink to some fishing rigs, due to it causing stress in the line so we use a cup of boiled water and it works just as well.

 

[Beattie282]

the amount of power a toaster uses to heat stuff is alot, or so i have been told.

you would probs use alot of electricity so in the long run it will probs be best to buy the heat gun.

or you can just be a compleat rebble

 

[Stormaged0n]

IF your thinking about kitchen appliances why not give the grill or oven a go?

Gas mark 7, 10-15 mins, done to perfection!

 

[wassupdoc]

You could use a toaster but it would take about 10 minutes for the heatshrink to get to the temperature where it starts shrinking because you can't concentrate the heat.

I have a halogen heater that I use when I forget to "borrow" a heatgun from work.

I wouldn't suggest this, because obviously you're sleeving power cables but because you can't use direct heat when you're applying heatshrink to some fishing rigs, due to it causing stress in the line so we use a cup of boiled water and it works just as well.

Interesting, may use that in my fishing rigs XD

 

[wassupdoc]

the amount of power a toaster uses to heat stuff is alot, or so i have been told.

you would probs use alot of electricity so in the long run it will probs be best to buy the heat gun.

or you can just be a compleat rebble

 

[wassupdoc]

IF your thinking about kitchen appliances why not give the grill or oven a go?

Gas mark 7, 10-15 mins, done to perfection!

Microwave 0-3 minutes (750W)

Hob, empty into saucepan...

Nice username btw, dr.who rocks XD