jim rozen wrote:


There was an impressive *Pop* from the innards of the heat gun,
and then smoke began to gently waft from the air intake. Turns
out the handle (which had been spinning a bit loose for a while,
this is an elderly Veeco that I've had for years) had finally
spun enough to short the neutral wire against the hot switch
lead.

Ha ha, brings back pain.

The last time I got my heat gun down and
turned it on, I was greeted by dense smoke
and an unpleasant smell. Seems wasps had
built a nest inside the barrel.