If it was a flame thrower then yeah, you cant stick your hand in front to detect temps
But this is a heat gun, a fancy one I suppose, but its hotter, colder, aim, shoot, dont leave on
Well there’s the on button and then there’s the off button. If your ever confused you could grab an ice cube right quick from your freezer and have the switch on one setting. Now point the end of the heat gun at the ice cube. If you see the ice start to melt then that setting was the on button. If the ice stays ice then that was the off button.
The ideal temperature used for certain tasks will vary, which is the reason the heat gun allegedly has “108 heat settings”.
The ideal amount of air the heat gun shoots will also effect the amount of heat at a certain distance, and were that heat goes.
The fact that I linked to sections of the manual and you can’t even mention what those sections are, sort of shows that some people DO NEED a manual for a heat gun.
Also, if you point a heat gun at an ice cube and the ice cube starts to melt, the heat gun might be on, or it just might be a hot day, and the heat gun is blowing room temperature air at the ice cube.
This heat gun with its digital controls is obviously trying to copy the fancy heat guns made by Steinel, some of which allow you to program specific memorized heat settings, so actually knowing how the heat gun works will prevent a normal user of a Steinel heat gun from potentially wasting time trying to find a setting that doesn’t exist.
Knowing the heat gun turns on at the lowest setting will prevent a user from expecting the heat setting from being the same as when the gun was turned off, and wasting time blowing cold air.
Safety recommendations don’t just include Don’t leave the heat gun on” they also should include, don’t touch potentially flammable materials with the steel heat gun tip.
Advice like yours is why OSHA exists, and companies have to pay craploads for worker’s comp insurance for employees.
If you need a manual for a heat gun, find something else. I once bought a coffeemaker with that kind of ****. Had to get the manual out every time I wanted to change the time setting. It went into the garbage before long and I found one with labeled buttons. Every thing you buy should not require a manual.
There are “fancy” heat guns nowadays, and for the past 30 years, that were designed to make the heat guns more versatile, and more adjustable, to make certain tasks more reliable.
Steinel and Master Appliance both manufacture the “fancy” heat guns.
Being able to more accurately adjust temperatures allows the heat gun to be more safety used to remove decals or stickers, or other materials from A surface, without dsmaging the underlying surface, and maybe even allowing the decals or stickers to be saved.
Master Appliance has a heat gun with a sensor that measures temperature on the surface being heated, so the heat gun doesn’t screw up the painted surface of something like a car when removing decals or stickers a delinquent might have slapped on the car.
If you are using the heat gun to bend or form plastic, there is a minimum and maximum heat range, and most heat guns can go above the “Oh Sh!t” temperature.
Adjustable Fan speed may be useful when inflating inflatable furniture or other items that vary in size, and durability.
If you just want a “Dumb” heat gun, with two switches or buttons, those are still available, from cheap Harbor Freight models, to expensive “Industrial” models, like the decades old Master Appliance models Bosch used to rebrand, or Leister and Steinel “Industrial” models, that can cost close to $1,000.
