Covering iron shortage? ----- substitute?

A friend of mine Just emailed me about his old iron shorting out (frayed cord).

Here is my friend's Mike Myers email:

I’m getting ready for the Champs. I have a couple of old covering irons. The one I was using had a frayed cord. Okay—time to treat myself to a new one. I hied myself down to the hobby shop, cash in fist and said, “I want to buy a new covering iron”. Well sez the guy behind the counter— “No can do. Nobody makes them anymore.” Son of a gun—I went on the Internet and Horizon Hobby and Hobby King don’t list any covering irons. At Hobby King they are backordered and will arrive who knows when if ever—maybe on the 33rd of February 2045 at their Bossier City warehouse. Maybe. You might order a weird looking little iron from some “No Name” warehouse in China—but the plugs on the irons didn’t look like they’d work in the States etc. Well guys it looks like the time has passed by for those who use plastic films to cover their models. Maybe it’s time to revert to tissue and dope for most small models. But for things like say a Kloud King, which I can still cover with Ultracote and such—even if I can’t get a new covering iron. Allan Laycock down in Oz has a solution for us—or at least for me. Allan showed me how to use a domestic iron—like Her Indoors uses. Works great. That soleplate has a lot of mass and thermal energy, and the covering films sit right up and take notice and behave. You could spend forever with a conventional iron and not get the same result. Residual heat and thermal mass matter. Now after Allan showed me this, I said I had to follow. But not being dumb or reckless enough to purloin my wife’s high end Rowena steam iron, I went down to Target and bought a nice little Black & Decker steam iron for maybe $22.50.

Here is my solution I told Mike Myers:

Well, for a replacement for a covering iron, I guess "we" can use the iron used for veneer edge banding.
The heat range is a little higher than the "old" TopFlite or 21st Centry Iron or the Hanger 9 iron.
The heat range on them starts at 200°F and goes up to 400°F.
At the low end (200°F) will do the job for tacking the covering like Ultrakote.

The old irons had a heat range from 100°F to 350°F.

I did a quick look on Amazon for R/C covering heat gun (Hanger 9) and it came up with this page:
Hanger 9 covering heat gun

Now "IF" you scroll down a bit, you will notice a bundling of the heat gun / sealing iron / and iron sock.

As seen below: