Why are soldering irons so long?

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I think it’d be way more precise to have a soldering iron where the tip is close to your fingertips, just like a pen.

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A soldering iron… close to your fingertips?

That’s how you get burned! Soldering irons are extremely hot!

If you designed a shorter soldering iron, then you would get more precise, but you’d also have to design some sort of heat protection for your hand, and every design I can think of would result in the soldering iron being more bulky and less precise.

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