Review on 🔥 Ivation Cordless Butane Powered Glue Gun: Rapid Heat-Up Gas Hot Glue Gun for DIY Projects, Crafts, Woodworking, Repairs, Decorations, and More by Kelly Caballes

Here's a skinny with this butane glue gun. My favorite "Stanley", a 20 watt electric hot glue gun, decided to ruin the bed after about 10 years. for something better. hotter. To work. A glue gun that can push glue through. And then I stumbled upon it. Cordless Butane Glue Gun!? Yes, please! Sale. When it arrived I was thrilled. Brought it home, filled it with Ronson Ultra Butane Fuel (per the letter's instructions), and moved the "throttle" to the "on" position. So far, so good. Immediately I heard the faint hiss of butane as it began to flow through the gun. I pressed the black "fire" button on the front of the gun. Click. Nothing. hiss click. Click. I tilted the gun slightly, peering through the small viewing window, wondering if it was on fire, but just couldn't see it. There is no such happiness. I clicked again. And again. Then a slight "puff" and a steady hiss changed the tone, and the viewing window went from completely dark to light blue and then light orange. Then to a full dark orange. It went! Although he was unenthused by the many attempts to light this gun, it heated up surprisingly quickly and the glue quickly began to melt and flow. I used the gun for about 5-10 minutes and ran through a couple of full sticks. It worked great. That is, until the gas runs out. never mind Added more gas. Click Click Click. In 5 minutes. CLICK CLICK. About 50 clicks later the bones are gone. I'm going to sleep. Got up and wondered if the ignition problem could be related to the quality of the butane I was using. After all, it was a fairly old petrol can. So I went out and bought a new can of Purofine Xikar Premium Butane. Came home, turned on the gas, and the gas station I did last night hissed on its own. Until the gun completely discharged. Filled with new Purofine (not cheap by the way). I'll spare you the clicks, suffice it to say this gun never fired again. JE. Drain THIS fuel and initiate a "return". I have to say that this seller was really great at it. As soon as the return started they sent me a brand new pad and two days later I already had it. The first weapon is back. Filled the second and he fired, FIRST CLICK. I was in seventh heaven with happiness. And I have to say that this device REALLY lived up to all the rave reviews. And I've run quite a few sticks through them. It wasn't very fast. But it was reliable. That means it hasn't happened yet. And this happened about three weeks later. I confess that I used a pistol a lot back then. And it fired and worked the whole time with no more than two or three clicks of the igniter. I never dropped it either. And then one day, he just started doing the same thing the first one was suffering from. A few clicks turned into five or ten. Then it doesn't light up. All hiss, no pee. I was up the drain with no glue gun. AGAIN. And this time VERY close to being outside the return window for it. So I put it on hold and bought another wired shotgun here at Amz. I left this gun on the shelf in my shop for a couple of weeks before deciding one night it wasn't going straight in the trash. That is, not before you've taken it apart. I needed to know that something had gone wrong and what the real problem was. I still had hope. I took it apart and two things immediately struck me. First, the "piezo igniter" block used to fire these guns is "bottom barrel" quality at best. Second, the valve (and butane gas line rubber hose) at the top of the butane gas chamber is "extra small". So with a weak spark and questionable fueling, it was no longer a mystery. As with anything that doesn't "work", it is either a fuel delivery problem or an ignition (spark) problem. And in the case of this hot glue gun, it looks like it suffers from both. So I removed the piezo igniter from a long fireplace lighter I had at home and replaced the factory igniter. I replaced the factory gas supply tube with a slightly larger piece of tubing I got from another long log lighter and adjusted the flow rate of the butane cylinder valve (like a butane lighter wheel). The main launch port (where the butane ignites) lined with a round file. And while I was noticing the factory "heat-resistant cement" used to seal the entire hot air chamber (which channels hot combusted gas and air around the glue stick's main tube, turning it from a solid to a liquid state), it began to crack and break. And at the same time, his absence allowed extra air into this chamber. Which, I believe, was ultimately the cause of the gun's sudden complete inoperability. So I mixed up a small amount of Xtreme Heat QuikSteel and resealed every seam throughout the chamber with it. Put everything back together, twisted the throttle (to a much louder "hiss"), and after two clicks it immediately exploded in a bright orange glow in the sight glass. Reached full chamber temperature in less than a minute and pushed through the glue like it was going out of style. And to this day. So two stars is the best I can do. Mainly because of my time. That's because the average person who buys this glue gun isn't going to be a glutton with disappointment and punishment. Nor will they have a penchant for overhauling devices they paid good money for that failed miserably. Most give up and throw it in the nearest trash can. Therefore, I cannot in good conscience recommend "everyone" to buy this glue gun. However, mine is no joke. and i love it. And if you like modding, you have the time, patience, and $40 to burn a hole in your wallet, I say by all means go for it.