Originally Posted by kjmillig
If you mean a true "heat gun", those are designed for stripping paint. Heat-shrink tubing doesn't require extreme heat. I use dual setting hair dryer set on "hot" and it does fine. I certainly wouldn't drop a bunch of cash on a special heat gun just for heat-shrink.
If I remeber right some of the heat shrink I've seen reacts at about 240F. If a hair drier is enough to do the job well then I'll hold off on a heat gun and give my wife's Conair a try.
Heat shrink isn't the only thing I'd use it for though. I take decals off of parts sometimes and I'd rather stop using solvent.
Still curious though: What the approx. max temp safe for activating heat shrink around bike parts? I'd rather not find out the hard way.
Thanks,