Waxing with What?

[Just Looking]

I just purchased a heat gun. Looking through the manual at the temperature suggestions for various projects I come across the following:

Use Temp. Setting
Removing:
Floor coverings (adhesive backed) . . . .......... . .350º - 750º F
Paint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .750º - 1150° F
Drying:
Paint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .250° - 550º F
Plaster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .250° - 550º F
Heating:
Shrink-tube (electrical) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .350° - 650º F
Frozen water pipes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1150° - 1350º F
Molding and bending Plexiglass and Formica . .. .250° - 450º F
Waxing skis .and snowboards . . .. . . . . . . . . .250° - 450º F


Any body actually do that? I'm an iron guy myself, but a heat gun seems like a real inefficient and difficult way to go about it.

[El Chupacabra]

I use a heat gun to help get base welds to stick. Be careful. (I melted the base on some junk skis the first time I tried this.)

[Ottime]

I use the heat gun for base welds and all ptex work. Heat up a stainless puddy knife, melt plastic, press. Works great.

Never used it to wax, but have made a few passes on real cold nights to warm up the base just a bit.

But, you ndo need to be real carefule - you do not want to melt an epoxy.

[LC]

A little over a year ago we had a guy in the snowboard department in our shop who thought it was a good idea to go wave a heat gun over boards for about 5 minutes after he waxed them. I must have told him at least three times that it wouldn't be doing any good and there was a good chance he'd fuck up the boards. He took no notice and I stopped caring (if it had been someone in ski dept I would have taken more action). Well, a while later an unhappy customer comes back in with a board he had in for a touch up, and the snowboard manager comes to me looking confused. "Have a look at this base - it's all bumpy and wavy..."