ALDI Ferrex cordless hot melt glue gun teardown

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This hot melt glue gun was seized by security when I took it through as hand luggage (for safety!). They implied that I might brandish it and hijack the small island-hopper propeller plane.
I'm sure my movie-villain appearance had nothing to do with the decision.
Fortunately I was able to pay to have the glue gun posted to me. (Total cost of both tools £30 - cost of recovering them £20!)
Turns out that it's a very capable little glue gun with a ridiculously fast heat-up time and the circuitry and heater assembly were well worth making a video about.
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@fuller9x

You're the in-cabin safety officer, ensuring that you can rebond the panels midflight in the event of an unscheduled maintenance event.

@blackcountryme

"Glue needs to be applied here, here, and here... If you're on a Boeing aeroplane, bolts are also needed"

@TC_here

To be fair with a glue gun you could branish it in a bank and yell this is a stick up :)

@captianmorgan7627

You should also try going through security with a bag full of rocks. They love it when the x-ray shows opaque blobs of an unknown nature.

@khaitomretro

"We can let the glue gun and the 'dremel' on the flight but you, sir, are too formidable a threat being bearded, 6'4" and 250lbs. You'll have to travel as checked baggage."

@Dorff_Meister

TSA saw my small set of drivers (collection of about 30 bits and a driver handle) and told me "drill bits aren't allowed!" in a snippy tone. When I politely informed them they were small screw driver bits and not drill bits they supervisor let it through although gave me some "well ya know...". Now the case has "SCREW DRIVER SET" in bold sharpie on the front of it and been through multiple TSA checkpoints. I seem to always get the trainee (but maybe all they have is supervisors and trainees).

@POVwithRC

Airport security is the longest running make-work project for otherwise unemployables. Anyone old enough to have flown pre 2001 knows this.

@paleopteryx

They prevented a possible terrorist attack in which the passengers were glued together with the crew with hot melted plastic and then tiny holes were made in the fuselage using a little dremel clone (using toothpicks as drilling bits)! They deserve a medal, we all feel a lot safer now ;-)

@iangrice329

So you start brandishing your hot glue gun on the flight and then what?? A crafting session? Glue all the tray tables down so the plane can never land ??

@jackking5567

I once watched in awe as customs accused a travel friend of smuggling goods inside his tape recorder - those top loading mono sound ones. We watched as customs dismantled the whole machine in front of us. It never worked again.

@vaughanellis7866

I've had similar problems with UK airport "security" in my case it was pen/carbide scribe, and a block of self hardening modelling clay, The some how thought that the pen/carbide scribe was a weapon (in their words a "Tactical Pen") and they thought the modelling clay was a "Plastic Explosive",

@Kevin-mx1vi

When I did my first airport security training, the chap who did the course carried with him as his "tools of the trade" a real but deactivated gun and several fake but viable bombs, with plasticene substituted for the plastic explosive.

@VisDeux

You're lucky they did not realize you could brandish your hand with 2 fingers bent and threaten people like all kids do.

@jamesbarlow5309

That dry VAT joke 😆

@DicedIceBaby314

Thanks Clive! Wanted to let you know my partner has an endearing nickname for you “sleepy hands”. We always have the show on before bed because it’s relaxing and calm. Sincerely mean it as a compliment. Thanks for all that you do!

@paranoiia8

Airports: please put any devices with batteries in your personal luggage.

@RichGwilliam

"We're confiscating this, we think it looks like a gun"

@jasonandreoli4135

About 20 years ago I received a fireside companion set (poker, shovel, tongs etc) as a Christmas gift and packed it in my hold luggage when returning home to Ireland. My wife and I were paged in the lounge of Leeds bradford Airport and escorted to a little room by armed coppers and made to unpack our case. Afterwards a grinning copper showed us the x ray and the unassembled utensils looked a lot like an automatic gun, down to the pointy brass ferrules in a line like bullets in a magazine, the shovel looked like the handle, the bundled shafts like the barrel and the poker end like a trigger.