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    text: "There is so many more things you could do with this technique - let your creativity flow!\n\nYou can try this technique in a low-tech way with a conventional heat gun,\n- or maybe you even get the professional tool,\n- OR maybe you can even come up with a modification for a heatgun to do it more professionally? \nLet us know!"
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