"Cold heat" soldering?

[Tony Duell]

> 
>  My "favorite" part is at the beginning when the idiot can't solder his
> item because the power cord is too short. I guess it never occurred to them
> that a soldering iron is a PORTABLE device and can be moved! They should

I think I've mentioned it before, but one of the first things I made up 
when I got some US 234V mains plugs was a short lead with one of those on 
one end and a UK 13A socket on the other. This is used to run my 
soldering iron from the power controller sockets in my PDP11 systems -- 
it's a lot easier to take the iron to the machine than vice versa :-)

-tony