<HTML><BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff">In a message dated 10/21/02 7:30:08 PM Central Daylight Time, pianotuna@accesscomm.ca writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Hi David, The shank bending pliers that I recommend the incandescent dimmer switch for (NOT MOTOR CONTROLLER) draw 150 watts. I agree they should not be used with a heat gun--but for different reasons. You may well burn out the motor on a heat gun with such a dimmer, which uses a silcon controlled rectifier to switch the A.C. into pulse D.C. and reduces the voltage by reducing the number of pulses. A side benefit of using an SCR on regular incandesent bulbs is that they will last for years longer with pulse DC rather than A.C. </BLOCKQUOTE> Thanks for the scientifics. David Koelzer Vintage Pianos DFW</HTML>