Finds: A Cordless, Butane-Powered Hot Glue Gun
Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
This is probably the ultimate craft accessory: a cordless, re-fuelable hot glue gun. The next time you’re stuck (get it, stuck — hey, it’s late, OK?) in the middle of nowhere gluing 4,000 tiny beads on something, this is your tool.
Seriously, though, hot glue has all kinds of industrial and practical applications far beyond crafts — including positioning wires and making relatively strong, but breakable connections. For example, we used hot glue to attach trim on a dart board surround we recently built. It holds the trim on well, but not so well that you can’t break it off to repair the felt underneath if need be. (And if you’ve seen us play darts, you know the need indeed be.)
