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Thinking about getting one this year,

What are peoples opnion on it?

How well do the webs stay up if outside or got rained on??

Thanks!!

I don't own one but was thinking of building one from a hot glue gun.

Where were you going to purchase from? What's the cost?

I built my own 60W one last year for $10, and a storm rolled in on Halloween night bringing both rain and wind. The webs stay put GREAT. Though, standard glue sticks do yellow in the sun.

I'ld build a much bigger one now, and plan to next year, even.

These are the morning after the wind and rain...






This bunch blew all over and got tangled up in the grapes behind. (previously down to the ground) Actually looks better...


Previous to this, we had a display out front for 10 days that had a lot of webs. At around a week in, they had started to show some real weathering. It mostly just added to the effect, however.

In fact, I still have a gob of webs up in a tree, all yellowed, and tangled in with the leaves that fell and stuck in it, that I'm just leaving.

It DOES NOT like to come off of fences, siding, etc that you might get it on without getting up close and scrubbing/scraping it off, however.

If you're able, I'ld suggest building one yourself. If you're wary of that, there's several options on the market for fairly reasonable prices (compared to just the equivalent glue gun). You'll never go back to the stretchy bag stuff again, that's for sure.

The bigger the gun, the faster it'll spray webs. And, adjustable airflow at the gun is VERY handy. If you're buying/building, keep those things in mind.

Where can you buy these? Or, if anyone has a tutorial or wouldn't mind explaining, how do you make them?
UnOrthodOx, you mentioned "the eqivalent glue gun." Do you have to modify the glue gun to use it for this or can you just use a glue gun? You also mentioned the webs don't like to come off of some things- do they come off of regular walls, mirrors, and windows pretty smoothly?
Thanks for any help =]

Where can you buy these? Or, if anyone has a tutorial or wouldn't mind explaining, how do you make them?
UnOrthodOx, you mentioned "the eqivalent glue gun." Do you have to modify the glue gun to use it for this or can you just use a glue gun? You also mentioned the webs don't like to come off of some things- do they come off of regular walls, mirrors, and windows pretty smoothly?
Thanks for any help =]

Here is the how-to I used.

How to build a pneumatic cobweb shooter!


The commercially available guns use 80W glue guns as the smallest gun. These start at around $20 or so (plus shipping)

Then you're going to spend another $10 or so in parts.

Or, you can buy a pre-made one for around $50+

The two main commercial ones I know of are the Minions Webber (occasional banner on the forum here), and the Webcaster gun (sold in some stores). Google either of those and I'm sure you'll find em.

My 60W gun did ok for what I needed it to do this last year, but I sure wouldn't want to try to web anything remotely considered a large area.

Which is why I'm eyeballing a 240W gun on a surplus list...

Thanks for the pictures! I was always curious to see what the webcaster gun did, and see how it would weather. We have crazy weather Halloween-time here in north Texas! After seeing your display, I may have to make one for my cemetery!

^^Thanks for the info UnOrthodOx, that definitely helps! =]

We sell the Webcaster gun for $49.99. When we got them in last year we took one for a test drive. It was quick and fun to use. You go through the glue sticks pretty fast if you're going for a heavy webbed look. You just stand back and squeeze the trigger and fan back and forth a bit. My friend who helped with the testing took one home and did up his front porch. He loved it. He did say some heavy winds did damage some of the wide stretches. But overall they stayed up for the whole month of October no problem. They come off non-porous surfaces fairly easily, but sticks like "glue" to everything else... go figure. Here's our test photos.

If you have an air compressor and a hot glue gun, go to the hardware store and get an air nozzle. Hold the air nozzle under the hot glue gun. When hot glue starts coming out, shoot the air into the hot glue. It works great. I did my whole haunt last year this way. You have to use two hands to do it this way. But, I saved lots of money doing it this way. Plus all that money I didn't spend on a pre-made unit I could spend on hot glue sticks!!!!!!!

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Im not very handy at making stuff so I bought one last yr. I was doing a spider's lair. It was FANTASTIC! I was very happy with the results.. use caution though!! I was spraying the web in an upward direction and accidently turned off the air flow.... burned my hand pretty badly, I learned the hard way to wear gloves! It was a great investment tho, I used the web caster on several projects last yr besides the spider lair and Im sure I'll use it on several again this yr