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[–] 39 points 8 months ago (7 children)
  • [–] 19 points 8 months ago* (6 children)

    I think that the point being made here is that it's not a great idea to hold an actually running soldering iron by the hot bit?

    If so, I think that OP's image is supposed to have some sort of thermal insulation stuff around the hot bit, that clear stuff.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    is it even a soldering iron? i was assuming it was a probe for a logic analyzer or something

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    You can see metal changing colours due to temperature, those are definetly soldering irons except the top right one which is a hot air soldering station and (IIRC, I have the same model) it goes up to 550C. You don't want to hold any of those on the business end when they're running.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, the later images being posted are definitely soldering irons. I think that TurboWafflz is asking whether maybe the thing in the original Star Trek image that OP put up is intended to be a soldering iron, which is a fair question.

    I've used probes with little hooks on the ends myself, but I imagine that there are pointy probes out there.

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