"sm_jamieson" wrote in message
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I use a "heat gun", i.e. like a very hot hairdryer. ...

IME useless outdoors and useless on thick, old paint. I use a large
burner on a flexible hose, fed from a small (7.5kg?) propane bottle.

Colin Bignell

Correct,the heat gun will burn out in no time at all.

Torch and propane is the what the external painters use.

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Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite