Does anyone here have a plasma lighter/usb tesla coil lighter

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neoaliphant

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Strange question

I was thinking of getting a usb lighter

but I need it to melt hot glue sticks as well for work.

Does anyone know whether it would melt the sticks for mending stuff purposes?

Thanks
Al
 

C_Claycomb

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I had never heard of those. Had to look it up on Youtube. Doesn't look like a good thing to use with hot melt glue. The heat is very localised, and very high, and I don't think it would be long before a minor muscle twitch coated your electrodes with hot melt glue.

I would have thought that a much better option would be one of the little turbo torch lighters. I used to use one of those for hot-melt glue used in archery to attach arrow points to shafts. That arc lighter would not have worked for that application. A turbo flame gives much more control.
 

neoaliphant

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Hi
Thanks for the reply, im currently using a 2jet turboflame to melt glue,
I liked the idea of rechargeable tech , ive got so many other usb powered devices. Its simply the gadget factor.

Also cheap fuel gunks up the nozzles on the turboflame, and it doesnt like the cold....
 

TLM

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The hot area on a plasma lighter is very small, in fact so small that it is difficult to get it to some materials. A cool gadget but not very practical. There might be some use for it but lighting camp fires is not one of them.
 

C_Claycomb

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Neoaliphant,
I am curious what sort of work you do that repairs things with hot melt glue? Presumably this is in stick form? What sort of glue stick? Batteries don't like the cold either, in my experience. I have only ever used Swan fuel in my lighters and don't know if that is counted as good or bad, I don't use them enough to find about gunked jets.

Would something like this work?
or this:

Interesting problem. Cheers

Chris
 

neoaliphant

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ive been using ronson fuel since and jets have been fine, but used 151 from pund shop and it stopped working, a known issue apparently.

i use hot glue guns at home all the time for diy/crafting, so weve got hundreds of glue sticks floatinga round

keep glue sticks in my survival kit repair section,
been using gluestocks as a sort of sugru, love the way it cools so quickly and its not prone to fracture.

for work I do IT, so i often use glue to hold cables in place, along with cable ties, stick a cable tie to a metal surface and then strap in cables etc.
or put round the end of a cable to support a weakened /frayed end that has exposed wires, charger cables and the like.

turboflame lighter has been fine, but my wife wants to inherit it and so i had been watching youtube videos on the usb lighters, some people seem to rate them.

bit of a quandry but for £6, might be worth a punt, it has a tacticool...

Ta for the links, but i cant justify that much just for the gun....
 

Herman30

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I have a plasmalighter. It must touch the material intended to light. That mean that you will get glue on the spark producing head and probably ruin it.
 

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