We used this product to strip the paint off our entire house - 50 years worth on cedar siding - so I have about 100 hours of use on this gun. Yes we are crazy - in retrospect we should have sandblasted. We rented a few heat guns before buying this one. This heat gun is VERY superior to others we used and it is VERY heavy duty. It's design is also nice and feels very comfortable in your hand for extended use...trust me on this one. Also the variable temperature comes in really handy. Sometimes you need higher heat to get the paint off and other times the high heat would scorch the wood. It does get hot - I mean come on, it's a heat gun. It's not the handle that's hot per se, but all the residual heat coming out of the gun makes your hand hot. We always wore work gloves when using it - especially on the hand holding the scraper. If you need a heat gun, buy this one. Don't waste your money buying something cheaper. Read more
I bought the Milwaukee 8977-20 11.6 Amp Variable Tempature Heat Gun to use to heat the linings of my ski boots for refitting. It was very important not to overheat the material. Before I bought the gun, I knew that the temperature dial allows you to raise or lower the temperature but does not tell you what the temperature is. I simply used a thermometer to measure the output and marked the temperature dial. The temperature I required was low in the gun's range, and the gun worked very well for the task. Read more
Controls provide multiple temperatures. Operated on outlet connected to 15A breaker for 10 minutes without tripping. Will get PVC conduit hot enough to bend in less than 2 minutes. Supply air enters from the sides so gun can be rested on the stand in back for 2-handed work. Read more
We use heat guns every day in our business. This is a very nice and well constructed heat gun. Heavier duty than the one it replaced. My only complant is there's no markings to set the heat to. Our last heat gun had numbers 1-10, and even though it wasn't the temp. of the heat gun, it was very useful. I am going to number the heat settings myself and it will be the perfect heat gun for us! HTH Read more
Had two of these . First one failed after a month of lite use... The cheap switch went out. Got a replacement from the company. Same cheap switch. Hard to work with. The second one lasted a few months. Then the motor broke after the gun fell off a 32 inch table!!! Total junk. Thank you Milwaukee for making this crap in China. I have purchased Milwaukee for the last 40 years but no more. Read more
Great heat gun. Works really well, and relatively quiet. Light enough you can use it for a long time without fatigue. Like others, I wish there were some markings on the back, so you could choose a setting - even if it's not a temperature, a relative setting would be useful. A Sharpie pen will do the trick, but it seems like Milwaukee should add this feature. Read more
Very nice heat gun. I've used it for shrink tube and getting up some damaged vinyl tile. Worked well for both. It's stable and convenient when stood up on end on the bench. Read more
This is one of the better heat guns that we have found. We use these things for a commercial purpose and really put them to the test. They have a great fan that really pushes out the heat. We have gone through all brands of guns and only started using these recently. So far, so good. We have three of these at the moment. Only one problem so far. The tempature adjustment dial on the back should be somewhere else, or made more durable. On one of them, the dial came off and we couldn't get it to stay on and some dirt got inside and the thing melted to beyond repair! Read more
