Some things are best just bought rather than improvised. Improvisation is justified if the cost of the ready made item is prohibitive, or nothing is available which could reasonably suffice or be adapted because one's application is too specialised, Fabricating a heating element from scratch is rather like trying to make one's own incandescent light bulb....interesting only in so far as to show that it can be done, and perhaps out of a sense of achievement. Bare wires of any sort carrying mains voltages (over here we have 240V ) and substantial current make me nervous, On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 10:33 PM, Dwayne Reid wrote= : > Great idea! > > Even better is to disassemble a glue gun and use the melt chamber - > the larger glue guns will hold most of a full (8") glue stick inside > the chamber. > > Just add the appropriate temperature controller and you are pretty much > there. > > dwayne > > > At 02:30 PM 6/7/2013, Gordon Williams wrote: > >Glue gun nozzle? > > > >Gordon Williams > > > -- > Dwayne Reid > Trinity Electronics Systems Ltd Edmonton, AB, CANADA > (780) 489-3199 voice (780) 487-6397 fax > www.trinity-electronics.com > Custom Electronics Design and Manufacturing > > -- > http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > --=20 Perry Curling-Hope Research and Development --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .