How-To: Hack a syringe into a glue gun to make an applicator

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By Sean Michael Ragan
Posted 2010/04/09 @ 2:24 pm
Category Electronics, Hacks, Tools

This Brazilian site describes a process for combining a disposable syringe and a cheap hot glue gun, sans heating electrics, to make a pistol-applicator for solder flux paste. But I see no reason why the same process could not be used for other flavors of room-temperature goo. [via Hack a Day]

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8 Responses to How-To: Hack a syringe into a glue gun to make an applicator

SKR on April 9th, 2010 at 2:35 pm said:

brilliant

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jorloujr on April 9th, 2010 at 3:01 pm said:

FWIW The language is portuguese indeed but Luciano is a nice, very resourceful brazilian guy.

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marcelomatos.myopenid.com on April 9th, 2010 at 3:07 pm said:

The linked site isn’t portuguese. It is a brazilian (.br) website, in portuguese (the language spoken in Brazil).

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- Dre on April 9th, 2010 at 3:21 pm said:
  
  Obrigado!
  
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- Sean Michael Ragan on April 9th, 2010 at 3:41 pm said:
  
  I knew that, actually, but it did sound completely wrong. I’m prone to describe sites hosted in Mexico as “Spanish,” too. Sorry folks!
  
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  Spades on April 10th, 2010 at 2:16 am said:
  
  Think about MAKE; I’d guess most people would say it’s a site in English, not American. But it’s an American site and not an English one.
  Confusing, but thats the way it is.
  
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  Simon on April 10th, 2010 at 8:52 pm said:
  
  Nah, it’s definitely American. They keep spelling things like ‘colour’ and ‘aluminium’ incorrectly
  
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- Mguima on October 3rd, 2012 at 3:51 am said:
  
  Esses caras são uns chatos. Escreva uma letrinha errada e os malas vêm encher o saco. Parece que eles não conseguem entender que palavra, se não tiver sido escrita corretamente.
  
  (These guys sucks. If you mispell just a single letter they come complaining. It seems that they can´t understand what word is written, if it isn´t correctly spelled.)
  
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