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.
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.
Ah, right. I’m not in star trek scene, but what I’ve seen that might be a probe, soldering iron, welder and a plasma cutter all in one in that universe.
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.
Anti-fingerprinting or something, idk I don’t use secure browsers
Yeah, just reminded me of this.
is it even a soldering iron? i was assuming it was a probe for a logic analyzer or something
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.
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.
Ah, right. I’m not in star trek scene, but what I’ve seen that might be a probe, soldering iron, welder and a plasma cutter all in one in that universe.