<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Robert,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> This place has the Ungar for $107 and also offer a "heater element & diode assm" for $39, maybe you can fix yours.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A href="http://www.action-electronics.com/heatguns.htm">http://www.action-electronics.com/heatguns.htm</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This place also has Ungar parts <A href="http://www.arcade-electronics.com/cooper/weller_parts.htm">http://www.arcade-electronics.com/cooper/weller_parts.htm</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hers is a cute little butane heat gun <A href="http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/pshowdetl.cfm?DID=7&PartNumber=370-275">http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/pshowdetl.cfm?DID=7&PartNumber=370-275</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mike</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mike McCoy RPT<BR>Chapters 170 & 190 PTG<BR>Langhorne, Pa<BR><A href="mailto:mjmccoyrpt@earthlink.net">mailto:mjmccoyrpt@earthlink.net</A></FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"> </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=rrg@unlv.edu href="mailto:rrg@unlv.edu">Robert Goodale</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, January 31, 2003 1:51 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> heat gun</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My ungar heat gun died.  Does anyone have a suggestion for a more affordable alternative than the expensive Ungar model that the piano supply companies sell?  The criteria, (like the Ungar), is a long and narrow focused outlet.  Sufficiently hot but so much that it can melt rocks.  Most anything else commercially available has a short and wide outlet, pretty useless for piano work.  The flip side of this is does anyone have a good used Ungar gun they would care to sell reasonably?  There were a couple on e-bay a while back and I stupidly didn't go for it.  I keep checking back but there hasn't been any others.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Rob Goodale, RPT</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Las Vegas, NV</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>