My high school Roboics team had a heat gun we pulled out constantly (mostly for heat shrink wire covers and actually partially melting 3d prints), but Idk if it's the same, because the end of ours would actually start to glow if we had it on for long. We would also use it to melt away scratches and defects on acrylic.
Aww man, I went to go buy those demerit badges and the shop’s code is brittle as hell. You have to basically disable *all* your cross-site/adware blockers in order to make it work.
My favorite household item tool tip is the humble #2 pencil. Specifically, for use as a lubricant. Using a regular pencil to lubricate small parts and surfaces just by coloring in the problem areas has been a game changer for me. No grease, no mess, and no need to worry about dust buildup. Just clean, dry lubrication exactly where it is needed.
Small tip if that happens. Cool it off then take a angle grinder or hacksaw to it. Only know because I used to be a welder and I've done that alot. Now if you weld what your welding to your table your sorta SOL unless it's a aluminum (or some over metal that doesnt easily mix with steel) table.
Need a 5th trip to the hardware store demerit badge for those of us that couldn't get all the right parts in the correct sizes on return trips #2 and #3.
@@groermaik nah, you need one to see what they have, then do research so that you can go back Two to buy what you think that you need Three to buy what you couldn't get at one store, and you have to go to a different one Four to buy what you forgot Five to replace what you broke Six to get what you thought you might need but decided that you didn't Seven to return the items that ended up unnecessary and you couldn't use.
I once carried an entire drill press into the hardware store after the second or third time I brought home the wrong chuck key. I got the right one that time.
Adam, ive used this idea soo much since you made this video, thanks alot! I live in a colder climate and i used to need days to finish a project because of drying times (i paint in my shed). Now i can finish projects in a single evening, paint, dry in the box for 1 song length and paint the next layer :) Quick tip for people without much space: i cut a hole in a plastic container wich contains my painting supplies. When i need to paint i unpack the stuff inside (blowdryer primer and masking tape and other stuff) move the blowdryer to the outside and the storage container is now the oven :)
The joy you exude for simple things like a blow dryer is palpable. You always make me feel better when I'm having an off day. Thank you for all you do!
I made my first after seeing Adam use one in the Shining Maze build. Love them. I've used one to help cure Fiberglass during cold weather. Thanks again Adam and Tested!
Adam, I cant thank u enough for ur videos. Every single video I learn some concept of being a maker that I can add to my skills and ideas for better ways in projects.
I just tried the hair dryer box for drying Primer Filler! HOLY MOLY ADAM!! Do you even KNOW how much time you just injected back into my life!? You're beautiful! THANK YOU!!!
I tried your hair dryer oven on some wood veneering in my shop and it cut the time considerably. Using it on a realistic looking rocking horse that has several layers of hardwood plywood glued together. Took several blow dryers and thankfully I was blesses with daughters away at college. It worked so well I sent the video to some woodworking friends.
Tried this to speed up drying of my kit car components. Love it. Quite unnerving for the first few times worrying if it might catch fire 😂 but results are great. Super simple solution. Can’t recommend enough, saved me so much time. Thanks Adam!
Yep, thrift stores and yard sales are where I get a lot of things that I'm not in a hurry for, although I sometimes repeat the bad habit of getting another one that I don't need "just in case" the one I've already got fails someday in the future.
WOOOOOOOOWWW. Do you know how many projects the blow dryer oven could have helped me on!?!? Where was this video 2 years ago!? But thank you Adam to your dedication to US with all the tips and suggestions. You are the best.
WOW thank you so much! I just used the cardboard box oven today to dry anti-rust oil paint on a rusty replacement part for my car and even at 0 C (32 F) ambiant, that oven got the paint completely dry within an hour or two! Insane! That normally takes days to dry! So simple and yet a life changer! I'll be using this very often!
6:30 " so much for the rhetorical flourish" I learned a lot about language and clearly expressing myself from Savage too. Not just building and engineering. This man is good with words.
I watched some of the older "one day builds" this morning, and I genuinely love the newer videos of you doing the camera work yourself so much more. They feel so much more personal and genuine. It ads so much complexity to the videos, and gives us a much more in depth insight to your amazing workshop.
I was gonna say, “why not just get a heat gun?” But you pretty much answered it. The blow dryer gets hot enough to do the job. So you can walk away from it for a reasonable amount of time without it being a dangerous fire hazard. The quick diy drying oven is a great idea! I’ll have to tuck it into the recesses of my brain for the future.
ADAM you're the man, I literally* just finished a leather wallet and doused all the pockets with way too much Mink oil. As I was watching this I was planning on letting it dry for two days. Well I set up a box and blow-dryer and 15 minutes later even the pockets were dry on the inside! Thank you!!!!!!!!!
I had an ugly Christmas sweater that I was making for my wife to wear to her work party (they are having a contest) and the glitter glue was just not drying even after a couple of days. I then remembered your hair dryer oven trick and got it dry in a couple of hours! Thanks sooooo very much!!!
Glad to see I'm not the only one knocking things over when I get over stimulated about a "quick do" task! Demerit Badge: "Soldering Iron Mishap" or "The Burning Oops"
I am so happy you taught me this. It's cold and dark at this time of year and my latest model paint "attempt" was ruined due to cold temps affecting paint. And, yes, that is the essential blow dryer design. My mother had that same exact one when I was growing up. Kind of nostalgic for that design myself.
Household object repurposed: repaired a 3/8 inch water line leak using a rubber earbud cover as a washer last night--worked great! Inspired by your outside the box 📦 use of things
I have a drone that we dropped in a lake and I did exactly that and dried it out and works fine now. That is a method I have showed many people and works really well with any use
As an illustrator that started off using acrylic years ago, the blowdryer is a key tool if you're painting with acrylic paint. That hair dryer box is also a cheap and dirty trick we've used when curing Sculpey and don't want the fumes in the oven/house.
I have a blow drier hanging by my airbrush station but...in a certain Australian Army tank regiment far far and 38 years away - we bought a pantry cupboard, drilled a hole near the bottom and added a filtered vent near the top. Then we used it with a blow drier to dry 35mm strip negatives from a deep tank developer, so we could rush out film imagery and prints. The overflow from the vent assisted the print drying. Tony in Brisbane
I love the blowdryer oven, I've made probably 4 or 5 of them for warming up sculpting wax over the years and used them until they just fell apart. I used to attend a figure sculpture class in a bronze foundry and there was the best iteration of a blowdryer oven I've ever seen there. Essentially someone had picked up their neighbors broken deep freeze, taken an old thrift store blowdryer (one old enough to not have an automatic heat activated shut-off to protect from overheating) and they'd made wooden shelves spaced in such a way as to allow for air convection. We would literally just drop the blowdryer in there for a few minutes, and it would warm up stiff plasticine clay and sculpting wax for the class and kept it at a great workable temperature for the entire 3 hour session. And if people weren't strategic about retrieving their sculpting materials and ended up letting all the heat out, it just took another couple of minutes to come back up to temperature. It's still my favorite use of a broken deep freeze and a 50 cent blowdryer.
With woodworking I have used and still use a hotplate with an old little pot filled with sand to heat up small wooden parts to create shading. Works great. Plus I have used a blow dryer for my first coal forge.
I wish I could share this to all of the maker, miniature painting, and 3d printing Facebook pages at the same time. I have an old blow dryer in my shop for exactly this purpose and it is an awesome tool.
I created a large oven using a bread pan rack and insulating foam board for $120 including the rack. It gets up to the 180F we need to cure our pad printing inks. It covers 12 slots on the rack. The heating element is a $20 blow dryer. Been working like a charm for 7 years.
I pretty much exclusively make stuff via 3D printer, and I second the comment on filling primer. Works extremely well for smoothing out the layer ridges. I usually sand in between coats and go to a smoother sanding paper as i add on the coats.
I had to do SMT part rework for work for the first time ever this May, so my work lab got a hot air rework gun. I have used that thing consistently for everything but its intended use practically weekly since. Blow dryer in the lab makes perfect sense to me, now.
I do the same thing with the space heater I keep in my garage. Bigger fan = quieter! I also have a smoker I use for paint and ceramic coating. Pretty cheap used if you want to have something dedicated.
I have a dedicated heavy wall cardboard box that I have a shop vac and filter hooked up to for downdraft suction, which I then switch out the vacuum hose for a blow dryer. Close the flaps and turn on the blow dryer. Dual purpose and after 16yrs of use still going strong!
I use a fan heater blowing into the open side of a cardboard box for drying stuff in the workshop. Not so much paint for me, but things like steel parts after rinsing rust remover off them with water. It works incredibly well, drying them before they have a chance to rust.
I like to cut a small hole at on the other side of the box to help circulation and also if the air is moist or has fumes, it gives them a place to escape from. I typically put my dryer on an angle at the top of the box to help the swirling of the air inside and then a hole at the bottom to let out the coolest air on the far side opposite your blow dryer. You can also flip this configuration around and have the vent at the top if you may have lots of humid or gassy air to be expelled. I also like lifting my project off the ground just a little bit so the circulation of air can surround and hug the workpiece without pockets of dead fumes and or air. Sometimes it's nice to throw a cut in the box with a "hinge" ( just a flap you can pull or push open when needed) so you can lift it up to check your progress while drying without taking the whole dang box and dryer off and messing with its perfect placement. I also use this "check flap" to take temperature readings with my I.R. (infrared) thermometer thingy in addition to or in place of having a thermocouple taped to either the actual workpiece itself or just to the inside of the vent hole. If you are drying for an extended amount of time or have very thin walled cardboard you can get a pretty accurate reading just by shooting the Infrared thermometer at the box itself as long as it has come up to temp. You can also find the correlation between the box temp and internal "actual" temp so in the future you can streamline the process. no muss no fuss. Fun fact, as an insult I love the word "vent hole" usually referring to someone's overly used mouth (for excessive words and speaking garbage not that other thing you sicko), although you can sprinkle it on fart jokes if you are so bold. Enjoy :)
That blow drier oven is brilliant! I'm definitely going to be more productive when the red lights are on with that trick in my back pocket. I've been just switching my blow drier off when the buzzer goes.
Only if printed in ABS. Many prints are also done in PLA and some flavors of PET and neither respond to acetone. Otherwise, Acetone Vapor Smoothing makes for amazing glossy prints in ABS.
One of the reasons to go with the primer and sanding method is to get even better paint results than just smoothing the surface. One of the main reasons primer exists is that it provides a paintable surface for paints that don't have to be specific to a type of plastic they will be applied to.
Very cool. I made a semi permanent oven with some foam core sheets, and a small bench oven. I dressed the inside in aluminium foil. Got it hot and steady enough in temperature for curing foam latex :)
Take it apart and clean the filter every once in a while. Also, technically, you _still are a professional model maker._ And an electric hovercraft maker.
On a trip out of town, my wife and i got caught in the rain and our shoes were soaked from all the puddles... Well, using the hotel blow dryer as an oven totally worked to dry out our shoes!! THANKS FOR THE TIP ADAM!!!!
I am a hardcore skier, So I tune and repair my skis myself. The main bit of kit you use in ski tuning is a ski tuning iron, It is a normal iron but has cut channels for flowing wax and base P-Tex, Also they get VERY hot like well over 300F hot.
A hair dryer and box works perfectly when paired with a digital temperature controller if you need to cure something at a specific temperature like a resin. I used to work for a manufacturer of fiberglass aircraft and we had them all over the factory and in the service center. For fiberglass repairs, we made a "tent" of plastic over the area using butyl putty tape to seal it around the repair then put the hair dryer in one side and the temp probe somewhere near the repair. Leave a small hole on the other side so that air can exhaust. Set a temp and away it goes. You can also use a hair dryer & controller to make a permanent curing oven using 1 inch thick foam insulation sheets in practically any size or shape you wish though if you go big you might need to use a second hair dryer to get the desired temperature. I see a cheap controller on Amazon for $35 or you can go for a higher quality Johnson's Controller for around $80 and up that gives you more configuration options.
My wife gave me her old blow dryer 6 or 8 years ago, an old Conair 1800, when she got a new one. After a couple of weeks she came back and said "My new one sucks, can I get my old one back?". I showed it to her and she took one look at it and said "Never mind". It still works fine, but now I want a Yellow Bird.
As a commercial painter I have used hair dryers a lot! Trouble comes when trying to dry thick material like joint compound or bondo. You can dry the skin, but lots more moisture underneath. Shorter drying sessions prevents cracking, and time in-between sessions allows moisture to come to the surface.
hey Adam, best way I've found is I made an oven before by using a heat gun plumbed into an old filing cabinet with a hinge door! managed to get it up to a few hundred degrees and constantly used it for small powder coating projects!
I used this exact technique to kill off bed bugs in a suitcase that was infected when travelling to Japan of all places. I was able to get a big cardboard box (about 2m^3) up to 70°C with just a humble heat gun. The perfect disinfection chamber with just 10 minutes of work.
Since I do a lot of 3D printing, I bought a cheapo food dehydrator to dry out my filaments; I also use it for drying paint, much the same as that hairdryer oven. It's not quite as flexible, but it is big enough that I can fit anything I can print on any of my printers in it. My room mates have also started referring to my workshop as the plastic kitchen, because I've got a toaster oven (with a custom controller) in there for annealing parts and reflowing solder, a few different pans that I use with it or for things like holding potentially flammable objects, and various other bits which wouldn't be out of place in a kitchen.
I love the idea of demerit badges! Here's a few ideas: An "Assembled it wrong" badge, "Stripped Screw" badge, "Dropped it" badge, and the " Its in my eye!" Badge. Cant wait to see a full sash of demerit badges!
When I was in PC and Printer repair we use to use a hairdryer to move labels and stickers when replacing the plastic shells. Heat it up to make the glue sticky and carefully peel it off.
Wow! That is so simple and I feel so stupid for not thinking of that. I made some combs for someone to use on a weaving loom about 6 months ago. I made them out of aluminum and considered anodizing them but I really didn't want to mess with the chemicals in my home shop so I painted them. I had those parts hanging in the sun for hours when I could have done something like the blow dryer oven. Thanks! I will definitely be using this the next time a project needs to be painted.
Demerit badge idea: When you forget which "final2_the_real_one.stl" is the actual final version of the file - because version control, what even is that?
I use the same setup for curing resin casts. Same dryer too. I also stab a meat thermometer in the box. And use a vent flap on the far side to regulate the temp.
The 'oven' is a good idea. For a slower and gentler method, you can also use a couple of big, cheap Lasko box fans (usually $20-$30 for the 20x20" ones, and they last years).. point one at the object from one side and give it a little 20 to 30 degree offset turn to the left or right, then set another one up on the opposite side, and mirror the turn with this one. Makes an awesome invisible vortex of air that dries things quick. It's a little slower than a blow dryer, but waaaay faster than being out in the open air, and gentle on things that might be sensitive to heat. Some finishes will peel, crack, or get sort of a rough matte look if you blast'em with heat, and it works on very large objects easily, since there's no container needed.
We use silicone baking mats in the kitchen. When one finally wore out and we didn't want to use it for food any longer, it was retired to the shop where I use it for glueups.
This is the best use for a blow dryer that I have heard about since I discovered that you could use it to crackle spray paint on metal surfaces. Spray a thick layer of spray paint made for metal surfaces. Then coat it with a second layer of spray paint, run a brush through that while wet. Finally a simple third coat and it will appear that the metal object is ancient and has dozens of layers of paint on it.
I learned something recently from Crimson custom guitars, when using a Dremmel type rotary tool as a router put a thin strip of painters tape on the bit just like you would do to make a depth gauge for a drill bit. It makes a tiny fan that keeps you mortice clear. I have been stopping every few seconds to blow out the debris for years until I saw his video.
Over 20 years ago I worked in college radio, helped out in engineering, mostly pulling wires and stuff. We used a heat gun for heat shrink tubing a lot. Except when we forgot to grab the thing, so we resorted to Bic lighters, with the flame all the way up and held far enough away to produce enough ambient heat to shrink the tubing, but not reflow the solder... still best not to do that around a smoke detector. I ended up buying bulk wire and building my own guitar cables (and later a few XLR cables), but I didn’t have a heat gun... figured out the old Sunbeam popcorn popper we had was hot enough to do the job. Those cables still work great 20 years later.
My favorite use for an iron is to remove dents from wood. If you apply some water to wooden surface with a small dent, e.g. from a mis-strike with a hammer, you can use an iron to steam the fibers back. It doesn’t work all the time, but it has saved me a ton of work in the past.
Back in high school, done some work experience at a auto electrician shop, they had this exact set up for painting the reconditioned starters and alternators. Paint it black and send it back..
I have a tip for you. Warm the object to be painted first. Remove and spray. This works extremely well on metal parts. Paint flows over the warmed item very smoothly and dries very hard.
I have that exact same blow dryer, except in white plastic. I think I bought it in the early 1980s. It is the "Volkswagen Beetle" of blow dryers, a product whose design has been stable for decades.
We use exactly the same concept for curing fiberglass at work, but with a heat gun and a larger (4'x'4') wooden box... and also the huge 300ish sq ft oven we made the same way. Using a slightly more industrial heater. Point being, this design definitely scales easily.
Don’t forget that 12V drill and impact driver combo! The 12V Makita or Milwaukee Art is perfect for creators. They can drill holes, use the impact drive for bolts, nuts and screws. Get a pair of Knipex Pliers Wrench and Cobras. Best pliers ever. Instead of primer get a can of Bondo from the auto store. It dries hard quickly. Lol you mentioned Bondo as I was typing it!! Bondo also offers their filler in a spray can, Adam!
Hi Adam, I really need the last patch as I actually got a finger caught in a capstan lathe at work when I was younger, only minor injury. Great idea about the oven. Cheers, Neville.
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Bondo Filler Primer: amzn.to/3mUV0w1
My high school Roboics team had a heat gun we pulled out constantly (mostly for heat shrink wire covers and actually partially melting 3d prints), but Idk if it's the same, because the end of ours would actually start to glow if we had it on for long. We would also use it to melt away scratches and defects on acrylic.
Needs an "am i missing an eyebrow" Demerit badge
Gotta get that affiliate cash
Aww man, I went to go buy those demerit badges and the shop’s code is brittle as hell. You have to basically disable *all* your cross-site/adware blockers in order to make it work.
@adam - have you realised you're an influencer ? Stocks go low immediately when you recommend a product, and your recs made me buy a proxxon tool.
I'm fairly certain Adam has used hundreds of such ovens by the fact that he free-handed a perfect sized hole for his blowdryer :D
I couldn’t draw a circle that perfect
I was thinking the exact same thing!
He just said he's done this countless times.
There was definitely a circle drawn on there
@@stephanie.stanton I thought the same thing but after rewatching the clip I didn’t see anything drawn on the box.
I love how excited Adam is about a hair dryer and a cardboard box, he's a national treasure
International *
Universal ;-)
"What the heck is this?? I told you to bring only what you need to survive!"
"Its my industrial strength hair dryer...AND I CANT LIVE WITHOUT IT!"
That must have been the actual hair dryer used to dry the paint on the giant model for Spaceball One
@@joermnyc That thing was big enough for Mega Maid!
I always have coffee when I upvote comments. You know that.
This is the hairdryer I think of when I think of a hairdryer.
SPACEBALLS the upvote!
My favorite household item tool tip is the humble #2 pencil. Specifically, for use as a lubricant. Using a regular pencil to lubricate small parts and surfaces just by coloring in the problem areas has been a game changer for me. No grease, no mess, and no need to worry about dust buildup. Just clean, dry lubrication exactly where it is needed.
Demerit badge idea: Unintentional welding. When you are welding and something you didn't want to weld together is now firmly attached
And fingers superglued together
Small tip if that happens. Cool it off then take a angle grinder or hacksaw to it. Only know because I used to be a welder and I've done that alot.
Now if you weld what your welding to your table your sorta SOL unless it's a aluminum (or some over metal that doesnt easily mix with steel) table.
@@kyleb707 lmao
Trying to catch a falling blade. (Picture of hand with knife through it)
Yeah, like the bench. Done that......
Demerit Badge - an Electric Eel, for when you forget to unplug or turn the power off when working on wiring.
Need a 5th trip to the hardware store demerit badge for those of us that couldn't get all the right parts in the correct sizes on return trips #2 and #3.
Three trips are required. One to get what you need. Two to get what your forgot. Three to get what you broke.
@@groermaik nah, you need one to see what they have, then do research so that you can go back
Two to buy what you think that you need
Three to buy what you couldn't get at one store, and you have to go to a different one
Four to buy what you forgot
Five to replace what you broke
Six to get what you thought you might need but decided that you didn't
Seven to return the items that ended up unnecessary and you couldn't use.
I once carried an entire drill press into the hardware store after the second or third time I brought home the wrong chuck key. I got the right one that time.
@@Darwinpasta now if you could have only pulled the chuck to carry with you.
@@RNMSC I wish! Unfortunately the guy I got it from left a bit in it, cinched up good and tight.
An old electric tea kettle: steam out dents in wood, steam off stickers, etc. Warm or hot water in general can be very useful.
I have one for testing temperature sensing probes for accuracy
Adam, ive used this idea soo much since you made this video, thanks alot! I live in a colder climate and i used to need days to finish a project because of drying times (i paint in my shed). Now i can finish projects in a single evening, paint, dry in the box for 1 song length and paint the next layer :)
Quick tip for people without much space: i cut a hole in a plastic container wich contains my painting supplies. When i need to paint i unpack the stuff inside (blowdryer primer and masking tape and other stuff) move the blowdryer to the outside and the storage container is now the oven :)
DUDE. A "hot hovercraft" would be ideal to assist with removal of old vinyl floor tile. You mad genius!
Clearing snow from your driveway
@@MrBrian-Columbus Tends to leave a pool of melted snow/ice that becomes a nice glassy ice surface to break your coccyx upon.
@@RNMSC Backyard hockey rink Zamboni
I did a Heat gun oven using cardboard to heat my food when I was on location. Thankfully I had access to electricity!
The joy you exude for simple things like a blow dryer is palpable. You always make me feel better when I'm having an off day. Thank you for all you do!
I made my first after seeing Adam use one in the Shining Maze build. Love them. I've used one to help cure Fiberglass during cold weather. Thanks again Adam and Tested!
Adam, I cant thank u enough for ur videos. Every single video I learn some concept of being a maker that I can add to my skills and ideas for better ways in projects.
I just tried the hair dryer box for drying Primer Filler! HOLY MOLY ADAM!! Do you even KNOW how much time you just injected back into my life!? You're beautiful! THANK YOU!!!
I tried your hair dryer oven on some wood veneering in my shop and it cut the time considerably. Using it on a realistic looking rocking horse that has several layers of hardwood plywood glued together. Took several blow dryers and thankfully I was blesses with daughters away at college. It worked so well I sent the video to some woodworking friends.
That giddy happy smile while talking about shop tools is contagious. I can’t help smiling back. :)
Tried this to speed up drying of my kit car components. Love it. Quite unnerving for the first few times worrying if it might catch fire 😂 but results are great. Super simple solution. Can’t recommend enough, saved me so much time. Thanks Adam!
Yus! THIS is why I have held onto my blowdryer, even though I haven't used for hair in about a decade.
Your enthusiasm for a hair dryer and it uses is contagious.
Discovered the usefulness in my early airplane model building days. Making tissue paper or plastic film shrink as tight as a drum is very satisfying!
I found one of those yellow beauties for my middle school shop at a thrift store for a buck 99. A nice find before we had a decent budget.
The thrift store gods! Magic, thanks
Yep, thrift stores and yard sales are where I get a lot of things that I'm not in a hurry for, although I sometimes repeat the bad habit of getting another one that I don't need "just in case" the one I've already got fails someday in the future.
Demerit badge. Hammer, nail, bandaged thump= nailed it!
Connected to this: Bandaid on finger for getting bitten by a pin nail or brad nail.
WOOOOOOOOWWW. Do you know how many projects the blow dryer oven could have helped me on!?!? Where was this video 2 years ago!? But thank you Adam to your dedication to US with all the tips and suggestions. You are the best.
Nice! Removing anything sticky is my favorite use. Labels, stickers, paint.. anything! Better than any chemical.
WOW thank you so much! I just used the cardboard box oven today to dry anti-rust oil paint on a rusty replacement part for my car and even at 0 C (32 F) ambiant, that oven got the paint completely dry within an hour or two! Insane! That normally takes days to dry! So simple and yet a life changer! I'll be using this very often!
6:30
" so much for the rhetorical flourish"
I learned a lot about language and clearly expressing myself from Savage too. Not just building and engineering.
This man is good with words.
I watched some of the older "one day builds" this morning, and I genuinely love the newer videos of you doing the camera work yourself so much more. They feel so much more personal and genuine. It ads so much complexity to the videos, and gives us a much more in depth insight to your amazing workshop.
I was gonna say, “why not just get a heat gun?” But you pretty much answered it. The blow dryer gets hot enough to do the job. So you can walk away from it for a reasonable amount of time without it being a dangerous fire hazard. The quick diy drying oven is a great idea! I’ll have to tuck it into the recesses of my brain for the future.
ADAM you're the man, I literally* just finished a leather wallet and doused all the pockets with way too much Mink oil.
As I was watching this I was planning on letting it dry for two days. Well I set up a box and blow-dryer and 15 minutes later even the pockets were dry on the inside! Thank you!!!!!!!!!
Been using that setup for 30 years. Works a treat. 👍
I had an ugly Christmas sweater that I was making for my wife to wear to her work party (they are having a contest) and the glitter glue was just not drying even after a couple of days. I then remembered your hair dryer oven trick and got it dry in a couple of hours! Thanks sooooo very much!!!
Glad to see I'm not the only one knocking things over when I get over stimulated about a "quick do" task!
Demerit Badge: "Soldering Iron Mishap" or "The Burning Oops"
"Don't measure cut once." Someone has done this soooo many times
Or as AvE said: "Measure twice, cut once and still too short"... who hasn't done that...
@@Dravde a million times
Measure once, cuss twice
@@Dravde the usual mistery. already cut that twice and it's still too short...
"Measure once, cut twice"
I am so happy you taught me this. It's cold and dark at this time of year and my latest model paint "attempt" was ruined due to cold temps affecting paint. And, yes, that is the essential blow dryer design. My mother had that same exact one when I was growing up. Kind of nostalgic for that design myself.
When Adam said he has an image in his head that quintessentially says blow drier I think of the giant one from Space Balls the movie.
Household object repurposed: repaired a 3/8 inch water line leak using a rubber earbud cover as a washer last night--worked great! Inspired by your outside the box 📦 use of things
I'm just impressed at how offhand Adam nailed the size of that hole.
I have a drone that we dropped in a lake and I did exactly that and dried it out and works fine now. That is a method I have showed many people and works really well with any use
As an illustrator that started off using acrylic years ago, the blowdryer is a key tool if you're painting with acrylic paint. That hair dryer box is also a cheap and dirty trick we've used when curing Sculpey and don't want the fumes in the oven/house.
4:57 I lke Elmer's Probond Wood Filler for my models. It doesn't shrink, you can sand it, doesn't need mixing, and no nasty fumes like Bondo.
I have a blow drier hanging by my airbrush station but...in a certain Australian Army tank regiment far far and 38 years away - we bought a pantry cupboard, drilled a hole near the bottom and added a filtered vent near the top. Then we used it with a blow drier to dry 35mm strip negatives from a deep tank developer, so we could rush out film imagery and prints. The overflow from the vent assisted the print drying.
Tony in Brisbane
I love the blowdryer oven, I've made probably 4 or 5 of them for warming up sculpting wax over the years and used them until they just fell apart. I used to attend a figure sculpture class in a bronze foundry and there was the best iteration of a blowdryer oven I've ever seen there. Essentially someone had picked up their neighbors broken deep freeze, taken an old thrift store blowdryer (one old enough to not have an automatic heat activated shut-off to protect from overheating) and they'd made wooden shelves spaced in such a way as to allow for air convection. We would literally just drop the blowdryer in there for a few minutes, and it would warm up stiff plasticine clay and sculpting wax for the class and kept it at a great workable temperature for the entire 3 hour session. And if people weren't strategic about retrieving their sculpting materials and ended up letting all the heat out, it just took another couple of minutes to come back up to temperature. It's still my favorite use of a broken deep freeze and a 50 cent blowdryer.
With woodworking I have used and still use a hotplate with an old little pot filled with sand to heat up small wooden parts to create shading. Works great. Plus I have used a blow dryer for my first coal forge.
This reminds me of Jaymes Mansfield and her wig oven! Love when tips like this are cross-disciplinary.
I wish I could share this to all of the maker, miniature painting, and 3d printing Facebook pages at the same time. I have an old blow dryer in my shop for exactly this purpose and it is an awesome tool.
I created a large oven using a bread pan rack and insulating foam board for $120 including the rack. It gets up to the 180F we need to cure our pad printing inks. It covers 12 slots on the rack. The heating element is a $20 blow dryer. Been working like a charm for 7 years.
I pretty much exclusively make stuff via 3D printer, and I second the comment on filling primer. Works extremely well for smoothing out the layer ridges. I usually sand in between coats and go to a smoother sanding paper as i add on the coats.
I had to do SMT part rework for work for the first time ever this May, so my work lab got a hot air rework gun. I have used that thing consistently for everything but its intended use practically weekly since. Blow dryer in the lab makes perfect sense to me, now.
I'm so going to use this! So simple but never thought about it, love all the tips I learn and put to use watching Adam!
I do the same thing with the space heater I keep in my garage. Bigger fan = quieter! I also have a smoker I use for paint and ceramic coating. Pretty cheap used if you want to have something dedicated.
I have a dedicated heavy wall cardboard box that I have a shop vac and filter hooked up to for downdraft suction, which I then switch out the vacuum hose for a blow dryer. Close the flaps and turn on the blow dryer. Dual purpose and after 16yrs of use still going strong!
I use a fan heater blowing into the open side of a cardboard box for drying stuff in the workshop. Not so much paint for me, but things like steel parts after rinsing rust remover off them with water. It works incredibly well, drying them before they have a chance to rust.
I like to cut a small hole at on the other side of the box to help circulation and also if the air is moist or has fumes, it gives them a place to escape from. I typically put my dryer on an angle at the top of the box to help the swirling of the air inside and then a hole at the bottom to let out the coolest air on the far side opposite your blow dryer. You can also flip this configuration around and have the vent at the top if you may have lots of humid or gassy air to be expelled. I also like lifting my project off the ground just a little bit so the circulation of air can surround and hug the workpiece without pockets of dead fumes and or air. Sometimes it's nice to throw a cut in the box with a "hinge" ( just a flap you can pull or push open when needed) so you can lift it up to check your progress while drying without taking the whole dang box and dryer off and messing with its perfect placement. I also use this "check flap" to take temperature readings with my I.R. (infrared) thermometer thingy in addition to or in place of having a thermocouple taped to either the actual workpiece itself or just to the inside of the vent hole. If you are drying for an extended amount of time or have very thin walled cardboard you can get a pretty accurate reading just by shooting the Infrared thermometer at the box itself as long as it has come up to temp. You can also find the correlation between the box temp and internal "actual" temp so in the future you can streamline the process. no muss no fuss. Fun fact, as an insult I love the word "vent hole" usually referring to someone's overly used mouth (for excessive words and speaking garbage not that other thing you sicko), although you can sprinkle it on fart jokes if you are so bold. Enjoy :)
I build model tanks and have been using a hairdryer for years, it just works. clothes pegs are another must have item.
That blow drier oven is brilliant!
I'm definitely going to be more productive when the red lights are on with that trick in my back pocket. I've been just switching my blow drier off when the buzzer goes.
Acetone Vapor can be used to smooth the surface of a 3D printed part, just in case you didn't know I thought I'd share.
Only if printed in ABS. Many prints are also done in PLA and some flavors of PET and neither respond to acetone. Otherwise, Acetone Vapor Smoothing makes for amazing glossy prints in ABS.
One of the reasons to go with the primer and sanding method is to get even better paint results than just smoothing the surface. One of the main reasons primer exists is that it provides a paintable surface for paints that don't have to be specific to a type of plastic they will be applied to.
Doesn't work with PLA plastic which is the popular filament material.
I love the badges! Sometimes I focus too much on my mistakes and forget how amazing I’m gonna feel when I finally complete my project
Very cool.
I made a semi permanent oven with some foam core sheets, and a small bench oven. I dressed the inside in aluminium foil.
Got it hot and steady enough in temperature for curing foam latex :)
i am doing it for years BUT: Dust can be an issue, especially with Amazon boxes AND some (european)dryers have an auto-stop once it gets too hot.
i cross them over lol
Take it apart and clean the filter every once in a while.
Also, technically, you _still are a professional model maker._
And an electric hovercraft maker.
You can clean the intakes with an old toothbrush.
On a trip out of town, my wife and i got caught in the rain and our shoes were soaked from all the puddles... Well, using the hotel blow dryer as an oven totally worked to dry out our shoes!! THANKS FOR THE TIP ADAM!!!!
I am a hardcore skier, So I tune and repair my skis myself. The main bit of kit you use in ski tuning is a ski tuning iron, It is a normal iron but has cut channels for flowing wax and base P-Tex, Also they get VERY hot like well over 300F hot.
A hair dryer and box works perfectly when paired with a digital temperature controller if you need to cure something at a specific temperature like a resin. I used to work for a manufacturer of fiberglass aircraft and we had them all over the factory and in the service center. For fiberglass repairs, we made a "tent" of plastic over the area using butyl putty tape to seal it around the repair then put the hair dryer in one side and the temp probe somewhere near the repair. Leave a small hole on the other side so that air can exhaust. Set a temp and away it goes. You can also use a hair dryer & controller to make a permanent curing oven using 1 inch thick foam insulation sheets in practically any size or shape you wish though if you go big you might need to use a second hair dryer to get the desired temperature. I see a cheap controller on Amazon for $35 or you can go for a higher quality Johnson's Controller for around $80 and up that gives you more configuration options.
How about a badge showing a wrench driving a nail. "Anything is a hammer" badge?
Or a badge with a thumb next to wood. "Anything is a tape measure" badge? Yours is better, though.
Black nail badge.
Anything can be a hammer....most things can be a prybar.
As long as the wrench is a universal metric hammer.
My wife gave me her old blow dryer 6 or 8 years ago, an old Conair 1800, when she got a new one. After a couple of weeks she came back and said "My new one sucks, can I get my old one back?". I showed it to her and she took one look at it and said "Never mind". It still works fine, but now I want a Yellow Bird.
As a commercial painter I have used hair dryers a lot! Trouble comes when trying to dry thick material like joint compound or bondo. You can dry the skin, but lots more moisture underneath. Shorter drying sessions prevents cracking, and time in-between sessions allows moisture to come to the surface.
hey Adam, best way I've found is I made an oven before by using a heat gun plumbed into an old filing cabinet with a hinge door! managed to get it up to a few hundred degrees and constantly used it for small powder coating projects!
I fell into doing maintenance work 4 years ago. I added a blow dryer to my tools. They are handy for frozen refrigerators.
I used this exact technique to kill off bed bugs in a suitcase that was infected when travelling to Japan of all places. I was able to get a big cardboard box (about 2m^3) up to 70°C with just a humble heat gun. The perfect disinfection chamber with just 10 minutes of work.
Adam I love this Tip, I've been doing this for years. For Kids and pets - it also works great if you have to dry a wet spot on a bed or couch
Since I do a lot of 3D printing, I bought a cheapo food dehydrator to dry out my filaments; I also use it for drying paint, much the same as that hairdryer oven. It's not quite as flexible, but it is big enough that I can fit anything I can print on any of my printers in it. My room mates have also started referring to my workshop as the plastic kitchen, because I've got a toaster oven (with a custom controller) in there for annealing parts and reflowing solder, a few different pans that I use with it or for things like holding potentially flammable objects, and various other bits which wouldn't be out of place in a kitchen.
I love the idea of demerit badges! Here's a few ideas: An "Assembled it wrong" badge, "Stripped Screw" badge, "Dropped it" badge, and the " Its in my eye!" Badge. Cant wait to see a full sash of demerit badges!
When I was in PC and Printer repair we use to use a hairdryer to move labels and stickers when replacing the plastic shells. Heat it up to make the glue sticky and carefully peel it off.
had a refinishing shop years ago took my mothers old hair dryer to use in my shop and yes i got her a new and better one
Wow! That is so simple and I feel so stupid for not thinking of that. I made some combs for someone to use on a weaving loom about 6 months ago. I made them out of aluminum and considered anodizing them but I really didn't want to mess with the chemicals in my home shop so I painted them. I had those parts hanging in the sun for hours when I could have done something like the blow dryer oven. Thanks! I will definitely be using this the next time a project needs to be painted.
Demerit badge idea: When you forget which "final2_the_real_one.stl" is the actual final version of the file - because version control, what even is that?
Date stamps. In the title. If that isn't fine-grain enough, time stamps.
sort by modification date.
I use the same setup for curing resin casts. Same dryer too. I also stab a meat thermometer in the box. And use a vent flap on the far side to regulate the temp.
The 'oven' is a good idea. For a slower and gentler method, you can also use a couple of big, cheap Lasko box fans (usually $20-$30 for the 20x20" ones, and they last years).. point one at the object from one side and give it a little 20 to 30 degree offset turn to the left or right, then set another one up on the opposite side, and mirror the turn with this one. Makes an awesome invisible vortex of air that dries things quick.
It's a little slower than a blow dryer, but waaaay faster than being out in the open air, and gentle on things that might be sensitive to heat. Some finishes will peel, crack, or get sort of a rough matte look if you blast'em with heat, and it works on very large objects easily, since there's no container needed.
Yes! I used the blow dryer oven to dry out a laptop that got dripped on. Works great!
We use silicone baking mats in the kitchen. When one finally wore out and we didn't want to use it for food any longer, it was retired to the shop where I use it for glueups.
Badge idea: Didn't properly mirror the left and right sides of a build. Image could be 2 left shoes.
This is the best use for a blow dryer that I have heard about since I discovered that you could use it to crackle spray paint on metal surfaces. Spray a thick layer of spray paint made for metal surfaces. Then coat it with a second layer of spray paint, run a brush through that while wet. Finally a simple third coat and it will appear that the metal object is ancient and has dozens of layers of paint on it.
I learned something recently from Crimson custom guitars, when using a Dremmel type rotary tool as a router put a thin strip of painters tape on the bit just like you would do to make a depth gauge for a drill bit. It makes a tiny fan that keeps you mortice clear. I have been stopping every few seconds to blow out the debris for years until I saw his video.
Over 20 years ago I worked in college radio, helped out in engineering, mostly pulling wires and stuff. We used a heat gun for heat shrink tubing a lot. Except when we forgot to grab the thing, so we resorted to Bic lighters, with the flame all the way up and held far enough away to produce enough ambient heat to shrink the tubing, but not reflow the solder... still best not to do that around a smoke detector.
I ended up buying bulk wire and building my own guitar cables (and later a few XLR cables), but I didn’t have a heat gun... figured out the old Sunbeam popcorn popper we had was hot enough to do the job. Those cables still work great 20 years later.
This worked perfectly for warming up a new urethane band saw tire for installation. Cheers!
Dad just bought me one of these because this and for all my painting needs, thank you
That blow-dryer has the same spot in my mental dictionary! Probably because it's like the one my Mom used when I was little.
My favorite use for an iron is to remove dents from wood. If you apply some water to wooden surface with a small dent, e.g. from a mis-strike with a hammer, you can use an iron to steam the fibers back. It doesn’t work all the time, but it has saved me a ton of work in the past.
Back in high school, done some work experience at a auto electrician shop, they had this exact set up for painting the reconditioned starters and alternators. Paint it black and send it back..
They can also be used to pop out dented plastic bumpers on cars and removing window tint.
I am going to buy one myself because it is the blow dryer my Grandfather used with his charcoal grill.
Please do more of these household tools tips. I knew about the blow dryer but not the box!
I have a tip for you. Warm the object to be painted first. Remove and spray. This works extremely well on metal parts. Paint flows over the warmed item very smoothly and dries very hard.
I have that exact same blow dryer, except in white plastic. I think I bought it in the early 1980s. It is the "Volkswagen Beetle" of blow dryers, a product whose design has been stable for decades.
We use exactly the same concept for curing fiberglass at work, but with a heat gun and a larger (4'x'4') wooden box... and also the huge 300ish sq ft oven we made the same way. Using a slightly more industrial heater. Point being, this design definitely scales easily.
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U are so right!!
I always have to repair the old hairdryer, while she is ordering a new one.
Don’t forget that 12V drill and impact driver combo!
The 12V Makita or Milwaukee Art is perfect for creators. They can drill holes, use the impact drive for bolts, nuts and screws.
Get a pair of Knipex Pliers Wrench and Cobras. Best pliers ever.
Instead of primer get a can of Bondo from the auto store. It dries hard quickly. Lol you mentioned Bondo as I was typing it!!
Bondo also offers their filler in a spray can, Adam!
Hi Adam,
I really need the last patch as I actually got a finger caught in a capstan lathe at work when I was younger, only minor injury.
Great idea about the oven.
Cheers,
Neville.