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Article: Glue-gun shoot-out.
- Article from:
- Popular Science
- Article date:
- May 1, 1984
- Author:
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"You can pay for one of these glue guns just fixing things on a Saturday afternoon," the enthusiastic clerk at the home center told me as I picked up a sleek-looking model and checked its handling.
Even more enthusiastic was some of the copy on the packing cartons. The German-made Steinel gun's box, for example, boldly proclaimed, "It glues simply everything."
My recollection of the glue guns of a few years ago was of handles that got uncomfortably hot and of hot glue leaking out of the nozzle when I didn't want it to--usually onto something I didn't want glued. And I seem to remember not being able to glue big things because my gun wouldn't melt glue ...
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... ... PRODUCT: Crafters Square Hot Melt Mini Glue Guns UNITS: About 470,000 RETAILER: Dollar ... Chesapeake, Va. HAZARD: The recalled glue guns can short circuit, causing the gun to ... aware of four incidents in which these glue guns short circuited. No injuries have been ...
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