• tal@lemmy.today
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      1 day ago

      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.

        • IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz
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          15 hours ago

          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.