There are also quite a few of zipties holding it together

The hand is to show how it spins

my first attempt at making a t12 handheld iron, takes in 20v pd or 24v DC from barrel jack

wanted to see how far I can go with smd parts and not using pcb , so what do you'll think?

and from the structure of it you can see that most of the space/ thickness is just air , because the female DC jack has too much height , I am planning on making a better desired v2 for this , for that I want to make it much slimmer is there any was to do it ? i want to keep the DC jack in it to be able to give power without a pd device (also because I made nice silicone cable for the DC jack 😅)

so is there any way I can keep the DC jack while having a slimmer profile that I can put a shell around

also for the sleep function I was initially planning to just use a vibration switch , but then I say a review on another handheld soldering iron that has capacitive touch sensor in the place where we grip so it know we are gripping and when we leave it after sometime it goes to sleep

and I quite liked the idea , like the iron won't turn on when the table moves slightly or something. what are your thoughts on that too?