Friday, May 03, 2019
Ridgid 18V Cordless Butane Heat Gun
Pro Tool Reviews: Pros from nearly every trade can find a use for the Ridgid 18V Butane Heat Gun and its adjustable 1100°F max on-demand heat. I regularly use a corded heat gun with dual temperature modes. My unfamiliarity with—and skepticism about—using and re-filling a butane tool burned off pretty quickly. Let me show you how this tool saved me some setup and tear-down time.
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On reading the title, I totally assumed that this was an over hyped butane torch or some such. I was wrong! The Ridgid 18V cordless butane heat gun is a really interesting tool that seems to fill a niche I did not know exist. The reviewer explains that it saves a lot of time and effort for the heat gun to be cordless, and performs competitively with existing corded models. It seems like a useful tool, but I do not like the fact that it uses two power sources (18V battery and a butane tank), with no way to know the level of the butane tank until it is empty. That seems like a big design oversight to me, but I would love to hear from Ridgid if this is intentional about why they would choose to hide that information. Additionally, some cordless competitors like the Milwaukee cordless heat gun can heat up to similar temperatures using just battery power, so the butane really only helps with battery performance.
Wow, the day has come. My last ever comment on the green page. It’s hard to say how I really feel about this being my last comment, but I can tell you one thing for sure, I will not miss it. Another annoying monotonies task will most likely fill its place as I move on into the real world, but until then I will sit free knowing that I don’t owe anything to a not so green page at noon every Sunday.
I genuinely think it is fitting that I break almost every rule for this comment. First, the word count will sit at 149 only because I can. As for the posting time, later the better, right? And finally, a comment that has absolutely nothing to do with the article I’m commenting on (truly sorry for this). SO… I think about sums it up. Goodbye, forever green page.
At first glance, I initially thought this was going to be some super overbuilt tool that did the same thing as a regular heat gun. And while it may do the same thing as a regular heat gun, the butane power is quite cool. However, my corded heat gun was 20 dollars and this one is 110 dollars so I am not quite sure that personally, a cord is a 90 dollar inconvenience. There is still no denying that this is a pretty substantial innovation for heat guns, as the article said, there really is no competition in this field because it just seems that nobody is working on cordless heat guns. My heat gun is one of my favorite tools in my bag though, it is so versatile in ways that I never could have imagined before I purchased it. While I may not be buying the new Ridgid cordless heat gun, I definitely have respect for those who will buy it and all of the jobs that they will find it helping out on.
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