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Here’s the soldering iron I had as a little tyke.
My father bought it for me to keep me busy while he was at work at NASA soldering core memory modules for the Apollo missions with his full-sized soldering iron.
Note the short tip-to-grip for my little hands.
I have since graduated to a man-sized soldering iron, like my father had, and his father before him.
It has always been thus, and the cycle repeats with each generation until the end of times.