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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This is what has always bothered me when trying to learn to solder It feels like it would be a million times easier if I could just hold it near the tip. And considering how many other devices I’ve seen that are somehow like hundreds of degrees of heat inside of a plastic casing certainly there has to be some sort of insulation or something that can make this possible

I’ve seen like shitty toasters and toaster ovens made out of plastic I’ve seen like heat guns with plastic housings and stuff and they have little to no like extra nozzle or anything. Certainly there has to be a way to allow this device to heat up without needing like a huge fucking basically heat sink between me and the tip

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