[Brent Deines]

Normally I don't advocate the use of heat guns to warm a windshield repair as the intense heat is often hard to control even on the low setting, and depending on the gun the tips can get dangerously hot, but yesterday I could not find my hair dryer so I grabbed a new heat gun that we had purchased for the shop and found that it had about 10 different heat settings. I experimented around a bit and found a setting that was just perfect to keep on the glass throughout the repair process. I can't say that it worked better than my hair dryer, but it was quieter and I think the quality of the gun is much higher.

So to any of you that I may have steered away from heat guns, I now have to say that I have changed my mind, depending on the gun of course. Of course if you are a windshield repair technician/cosmetologist the hair dryer may still be your best bet.