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Ryobi has GOT to be joking with this soldering iron

I have opened up a fair number of Objects before and almost never found another Whole Object inside like this. Ryobi! What are you doing! The title of this video describes the primary punchline, but it's also just an overview of the whole tool's build quality, which I think is worth your time! Ryobi did some wild stuff here! If you just wanna see the Big Reveal it's at 29:17. Since posting this to Patreon I've been informed that the iron body is made of PBT (don't see that too often in tools) and the part I thought was fiber reinforced nylon is actually something called "liquid crystal polymer," a high-spec engineering plastic that I think I recognize from some little SCSI connector bodies. I'm sure neither of these materials are THAT special, but in a consumer tool they seem pretty exotic. Additionally, I thought it was interesting that the lamp chassis is PC+ABS+FR(40), so it contains flame retardant. It feels weird that the iron, which is meant to get very hot, does not have this

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  • Originally Aired December 28, 2021
  • Runtime 48 minutes
  • Notes Is a season finale
  • Created January 5, 2022 by
    spideronfire
  • Modified January 5, 2022 by
    spideronfire