How To Use Heat Gun On Eva Foam

My Sister and her roommate believe that heat guns arent safe and want me to use a hairdryer to mode my EVA foam.

How to use heat gun on eva foam. This trick only works for flat pieces but it still might come in handy. Stretch pull and form it into the shape you want. Other things you may use it for are things like warming glue especially.

It will be a lot easier to just go spend 20 and get a heat gun. Press J to jump to the feed. If playback doesnt.

Then bend it to the desired shape using the pliers. Simple forms such as curves and angles will retain their shape after one treatment. Just use an iron I needed to flatten a roll of 6 mm EVA foam and an iron set to low did the trick nicely.

Run the tip of the hot glue gun along the cut in the foam. With all the detail lines heated and opened I glued on remaining pieces like the grips top rail and sights. Its actually possible to burn your foam by keeping it focused on a single area for too long so keep it moving.

You effectively control the temperature by holding the gun a little farther away and constantly keeping it in motion across the piece. You can visually see whats been heated and what has not this is because the heat gun seals the outer layer of foam further and softens it. 2 Help alternatives to heat guns to mode EVA foam.

Of course it needs to be in its final shape before doing this. Video tutorial examining the basics of EVA Foam. When you use just the tip of your knife to score the surface of the foam and then heat it with a heat gun or hair dryer the cut opens up and gives you another form of detail and added dimension.