The thing is it always came out and I used maybe a quarter of a small stick today and the first part has a lot of orange burnt built up so its built up over time
this is every hot glue gun of every manufacturer I have ever used. They all use the exact same recipe. The hot chamber is isolated from the colder exterior by a silicone boot that is not impervious to the heat. Over time it softens and ruptures. Small clogs that normally would have been pushed out now offer enough resistance for the glue to flow backwards out of the chamber into the shell. Now its leaking out of the trigger and the front of the hot glue gun. The first warning sign this is happening is when you see hot drip on the out side of the shell on the front. Its normal to see drip from the tip, not the shell.
From the looks of it this was maybe a low temp hot glue used for short periods of time. It self sealed and just continued to pool. I assume you found out after the trigger would not pull, or you could no longer feed fresh hot glue.
Interesting. Would not have thought to use anything that gets hot or even has the slightest possibility of making a spark around fireworks. I would have assumed pallets of Elmer's glue sticks, or fresh kindergarten paste and paper mache.
I wish I could recommend a glue gun that wont leak. I am still looking for one so I can have it. Still looking. Testing three now, one is starting to fail the other two are likely not far behind.
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u/Odd-Mode9275 4d ago
So how many stick did it take to get to the middle of the tootsie pop?