I finally checked a review:
"Some of the advertising shows people touching the tip immediately after a soldering operation. In reality it does cool quickly, but not exactly instantly. If you've had the iron hot for a couple of minutes while soldering wires or trying to desolder a medium or large sized component, don't touch the tip immediately. It will still be very hot depending on how long you've been powering the unit. Power and heat are power and heat even though the tip does cool incredibly fast compared to traditional soldering guns or irons."
eddievanzant Reviewed by eddievanzant on . hahaha You know that commercial for the soldering iron that uses "cold heat"? I bet that when they demonstrate it, when the guy (shown from the chest down) uses the solderer then immediately puts it on his fingertip to show it cools off instantly, I bet his face is all contorted and his eyes are buggin' n' shit 'cause it actually is still hot- that's why they only showed him from chest down. Rating: 5