How to Hack a Syringe into a Glue Gun to Make an Applicator

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How to Hack a Syringe into a Glue Gun to Make an Applicator
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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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