welcome back to steve rob reviews today we're going to review this hot gun glue dispenser
and this one here is supposed to be an upgrade to my old one i'm going to test this it says
it's supposed to be a dual wattage 60 watts and 100 watts the one i've got on the bench over here
right now it's all plugged in it's been sitting there for about 10 minutes i got my watt meter
on it going to take a look at the temperatures we're going to take a look at the uh wattage and
see how it is so under performing i've had this particular glue gun for about 40 years and it's
just not cutting it because you get through half halfway through the little bit of a glue tube and
there's no more power left it's not even melting it hardly this one here let's see if it's an
upgrade i'm not too sure let's take a look at the the old one and uh see how it is reading right now
so here's the glue gun right here and you could tell how old that is it was actually made in
canada in brockville ontario and it says 25 watts now when these all start up they always go on high
at first and then they settle down to their uh preset temperature so what do we got on the watt
meter here 18 watts so what we're going to do is we're going to take a look at the uh
the tip there and we're going to see exactly how hot it is and compare it to the new one
okay so what we got here is we got it right on the hottest part i could see right there
so it's around well you can see it bouncing up to almost two say 250 around 250
and then we go down to the tip and you can see it drops off to about i can say just over 100 degrees
all the way up to about if you just find the right spot geez i've seen 260 there too say around 260
do all 268 270 well there you go right there that's about the hottest spot i could find and
it's just barely touching the plastic there you probably can't see the red dot with the camera but
280. okay let's take a look at the new one and see how this one looks so here's the new one here
and like all of them you just put your glue stick in and this advances the glue stick
the thing i really like about this one is it's got the extended reach and i really
needed an extended reach compared to the old style see how blunt that is
you can't really get into a lot of spots without touching the sides
so i thought the extended reach was a good idea and this is the uh the unit right there
and uh i just googled uh you know a glue gun with as high as the temperature as i could get this was
only 20 bucks right but if we take a look at right here you can see where yeah you got the 60 watt
and 100 watt and it looks like they used an off and on switch by the symbols on the front
so but we'll see how this works so what i'm going to do is i'm going to turn it to the 60 watt first
plug it in i'll bring it back and i'll take a look at the readings and see if it's actually 60
watts okay so i have it set for the 60 watts now let's just plug it in and let's see what it does
okay i'll bring it back when it's finished uh doing what it's supposed to do and let's
see if it set settles at 60 watts well there we go right there after five minutes 15 watts
i'm saying i'm not liking that already but i did just squeeze a little bit of glue down
through the nozzle there and 15 watts yeah i'm saying they're not even close so let's just flick
that switch there and let's see what happens when i turn it full blast on their 100 watts
there's our 100 watts and uh yeah it's dropping like a rock it's not going up so look at that
so i'll bring you back when that's settled in i'll give it five minutes and see what that does
okay so there we go five minutes are up 14 watts you know what i think this turned into a gong show
twenty dollars right down the drain okay so let's go over to the heat gun here and let's pull the
trigger and let's see what kind of glue comes out but you know before we do that let's just
let's just see how hot that tip is compared to the other one so i'll move it around a bit there and
we'll put the uh the heat gun on there and you know let's just see what kind of readings we get
okay so this is just the same as before
and uh i'm searching around to see where i can get the hottest temperature
are you seeing anywhere around over 100 degrees or anything i mean
let's just go right to this tip here oh see if i can get down to the tip here in frame
okay so at the end i'm seeing around if i just hold it at the tip there i can get up to about 185
but it's different on this one here because as you get to the base it's not as it's not as hot
but if you go down on the tip right there you can get
well around maybe 175 1 185 something like that okay so let's pull the trigger
on this thing and let's see uh how the glue comes out if it's any better than
my last one because the last one i could get like a half a tube coming out and then it cools
down to the point where you got to wait till it heats up again so let's see what this thing does
okay you ready let's just run a whole tube through here and see what happens
you know what i really don't know how to explain this but that's smoking hot
and if you take a look at the uh the wattage well it did go up a bit since uh
wow i'm not too sure what to make there
24 i started off with 14 right so i'm not too sure exactly what to make of this
okay so i had to revisit this again because
what i'm seeing is on the 60 watt when you first started up yes it would hit i believe it was just
over 70. so i never did try it right from the beginning stone cold like this is stone cold now
the glue is all dried up let's start it up on the on the 100 watt and let's see what it does
113 it's starting off at and it slowly drops down so i think i know exactly what's going on here now
and uh well let's wrap this up okay so i thought i was going down the rabbit hole of a gong show
for 20 bucks but you know what i like it so it's obviously it's thermostatically controlled inside
here fires up at a at a high peak and then drops right down to maintain the hot glue
and it did a good job at that didn't it i mean for 20 bucks and i got
like a whole bunch of these glue sticks with it as well i'm saying it's a keeper and uh
you know at first i thought this doesn't make sense because in my mind i'm thinking
okay so i should see a higher wattage but in reality inside here i think what's going on is
it has the peak current coming in and it just maintains a certain temperature inside here
and it only uses the amount of wattage net wattage necessary to maintain the hot glue and i ran a
tube through there like like nothing where i couldn't do with the other one so i mean for
20 bucks i'm loving this so thanks for joining me here today and uh if you haven't seen this
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