Glue-Stacker — extend hot glue sticks in length easily
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Easily mold hot glue sticks of different sizes together to extend them and work uninterrupted with your hot glue gun.
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The problem
Using a hot glue gun is nice but eventually it runs out of hot glue. This comes as an unpleasant interruption to your work with the pistol most of the time.
Recharging another hot glue stick is also most of the time very annoying, because you first need to use up the still inserted stick up until you can insert the new one and the mechanism pulls in the new stick.
All glue guns i used up until today, do an awful job at this and have most of the time difficulty pulling in the new stick.
A solution
I was so annoyed that I made Glue-Stacker as a molding-together-helper for glue sticks.
It supports glue sticks of size 7mm and size 11mm. I usually heat them up with a lighter and then put them in the Glue-Stacker to make both stick-ends be perfectly aligned.
Once the molded ends touch each other - while glue is still hot - I push the upper part of the stacker device on top of the two sticks being operated upon.
Before use
After the molding procedure of the two sticks, wait for ca. 5 minutes to let the sticks cool down. Then remove the new extra long stick carefully from the stacker device.
Congrats, now you have an extended glue stick. You might need to remove any residual hot glue along the connection with care to make it smoothly run through the glue gun mechanism.
This also works for extending a stick already pulled in by the glue gun. This is actually what I'd recommend before you risk running out of hot glue during glue gun work!
Printing
print in the given orientation of the STL files, especially the upper part
no supports needed in both parts
optionally use different filament for the outer text layers of the upper part
try to use infill > 25% for good stability
I used PETG-filament because it is tolerant to higher amounts of heat than PLA
Alternatives
Industrial use of hot glue often uses hot glue rolls instead of sticks.
To cite one of the providers of hot glue-as-a-roll "We’ve all been there—mid-project, running out of glue and scrambling to find another stick to finish things up.".
So, as one alternative you could also consider using glue rolls. But if you already purchased sticks this might not be the option solving your problem.