Heat gun alternative?

[natsuu]

maybe a stupid question but can i use a gas stove as a heat gun alternative?

[Guest]

What for 

[Slottr]

Trust me, its worth the 20$ for a heat gun.

[ELSknutson]

you could but its a bad idea and a heat gun is like $

3 minutes ago, Slottr said:

Trust me, its worth the 20$ for a heat gun.

heres one for  12.99  https://www.amazon.com/JR-WHITE-Embossing-Multi-Purpose-Electric-Heating/dp/B06VWG3CKQ/ref=sr_1_29?s=hi&ie=UTF8&qid=1491353692&sr=1-29&keywords=heat+gun

 

[NTDaws]

a hairdryer.

[suits]

Use a hairdryer before you use a gas stove. But a heat guns going to be cheaper a hairdryer

[stealth80]

if it's for rigid tubing i'm not convinced a hair dryer would get hot enough - Maybe a good one at full heat with a heat focuser

 

but, hell, don't use your stove! It wont work anyway, the heat needs to be somewhat focused

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

You need to state the job required of a heat gun.

you can use a soldering iron or a cigarette lighter on heatshrink but the result does not look as clean.

If your want to strip stickers or plastic from metal only a heat gun or hair dryer produces a clean result.

For water cooling you dont want your work looking like shit so get a heat gun

[oDoyoleRules69]

The stove wouldn't be concentrated enough, just kinda heat up the whole thing.  If you want it to look good, buy a heatgun, harbor freight sells a decent one for cheap.  Or use a propane torch, but if you dont have one, might as well buy a heat gun.  Just don't buy that $13 POS heat gun with no reviews on it.

[Eddie Current]

I'm going out on a limb here and saying that anything is possible. If you want to, give it a try and let us know how it works out.

[atomicus]

I don't see a gas stove working, as mentioned heat needs to be more focused than that will provide. Besides, if you're going hard-line you're clearly investing some money in to your build... why is a cheap heat gun such a stretch??

[natsuu]

well cause my aio is expandable and the whole build is already 5k and its been a couple of months so i was planing to upgrade the rubber tubing with glass

[atomicus]

11 hours ago, natsuu said:

well cause my aio is expandable and the whole build is already 5k and its been a couple of months so i was planing to upgrade the rubber tubing with glass

 

Glass?? I assume you mean PETG or acrylic. You can't use a heat gun with glass tubing.

 

Your AIO won't have correct fittings for hard tubing, so you'll need to spend more money on those, and if you're talking about a GPU + CPU you will spend more on fittings alone than a heatgun! That said, if you're talking about running a CPU+GPU off a single rad, that is really not the best thing to be doing.

 

Just find a cheap one on eBay, you will regret trying to do it any other way. You will need a silicon insert for the tubing also.

 

BTW - I'm wondering how you have spent 5K on a system when it doesn't even have proper watercooling and just an AIO?? What is your spec?

[natsuu]

9 hours ago, atomicus said:

 

Glass?? I assume you mean PETG or acrylic. You can't use a heat gun with glass tubing.

 

Your AIO won't have correct fittings for hard tubing, so you'll need to spend more money on those, and if you're talking about a GPU + CPU you will spend more on fittings alone than a heatgun! That said, if you're talking about running a CPU+GPU off a single rad, that is really not the best thing to be doing.

 

Just find a cheap one on eBay, you will regret trying to do it any other way. You will need a silicon insert for the tubing also.

 

BTW - I'm wondering how you have spent 5K on a system when it doesn't even have proper watercooling and just an AIO?? What is your spec?

yeah and here are my specs oh and my monitor is a ASUS ROG SWIFT PG348Q Curved Ultra‑Wide QHD 

System

• CPU
  i7 6850k
• Motherboard
  Asus rampage v
• RAM
  CORSAIR Vengeance LED 64GB (4 x 16GB) 288-Pin DDR4
• GPU
  GTX 1080 sea hawk X
• Case
  anidees AI-Crystal Tempered Glass Mid Tower Gaming Computer Case, Compatible with E-ATX, M/B - Black
• Storage
  400 gb PCI-e ssd, 4tb hybrid hard drive
• PSU
  evga 1600 titanium
• Display(s)
  Asus Rog swift 34 in
• Cooling
  Swiftech H320 X2 Prestige 3x120 mm Drive X2 Prestige AIO CPU Cooler
• Keyboard
  Razer blackwidow ultimate 2013
• Mouse
  logitech g 700s
• Sound
  Bass Pulse red led speakers
• Operating System
  windows 10

[PrimeSonic]

Yeah, I suspected that this was an overkill X99 build.

 

Seriously, at this point, it makes no sense to try to cheap out now.

Spend the $12-$20 bucks on a heat gun if you plan on doing hardline tubing right.

[atomicus]

Well you've gone way overkill there with RAM and a 1600W PSU... no need for that, but hey ho it's done now. Well, RAM maybe could be argued if you are doing some very specific tasks, but I have no idea what you use your system for. I'm still baffled why $20 for a heatgun is such a stretch when you'd spend way more than that on tubing and fittings as I say. Very strange thought process.

 

I'm even more confused by the fact you've already spent a lot on the separate AIO cooled GPU and CPU, so now you want to basically rip those apart and go custom? Very backwards and financially senseless way of doing things, and it seems the custom loop route is something you've just decided to do, rather than your plan all along? I'd just leave the system as is, you will gain nothing in performance, and actually you're all but certain to end up with worse temps if you combine the GPU in to the H320, as you will then have the one rad/res/pump sharing the load of the GPU and CPU, whereas it's obviously just handling the CPU now. You're basically throwing money away doing anything else to this system, which you've clearly spent way more on than you needed to. Besides, watercooling is really not a venture for the budget conscious, and the fact you're balking at such a cheap (and important) component raises a big red flag. I suggest you back away and just enjoy your PC.