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They're coming to take our (soldering) guns

KeithE4 said:
I've been using soldering irons for 50 years, and have never seen a power cord wrapped like that.
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If I read it correctly, the "noose" was originally used to hold a soldering iron -- suspended from the ceiling??? -- rather than to supply its power. Not being a DIY electronics guy, I have no idea if that's a common practice. It does seem a peculiar, esoteric item to be found on display at Cracker Barrel, but I'd be stunned if it were a deliberate attempt to refer to lynching or to terrorize or intimidate any person or group of people. More info definitely needed on this, I'd say.
 
kenglish said:
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/11/14/...errer=https://www.google.com&amp_tf=From %1$s

How many of you have a soldering iron in your tool box, or over the bench in your shop? Get rid of it now, before someone becomes enraged.
I guess having a cord on any tool makes it a "noose".
Silly.
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You aren't serious are you? This is about a noose hanging, not a soldering iron.

This kind of hyperbole on-line is the reason people get so worked-up over nothing. Someone like you makes a click-bait statement that they're coming for our soldering irons (hopefully as a satirical, or joking remark), and less than observant (or possibly less-intellegent people), take it as a gospel.
 
It's pretty obvious from the photo, and was also stated in the article, that it is an old soldering iron...part of the collection of old tools and antiques that the restaurant's decorators thought might look cool.
It looks like a commercial iron, like might be used in manufacturing, with a multi-wire cable and multi-pin plug, used to carry a temperature sample back to the power supply.
Is there a rule on this forum that engineers can't joke a bit and show a sense of humor, or is that just the general public's take on all us nerds?
 
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